stopping by the woods on a snowy evening robert frost! HELP NEEDED!?

Question

i need to know the main theme and what are some poetry teerms used throught out the poem??

Answer 1

Don't ask us to cheat for you.

Answer 2

Have you READ this lovely poem? Enjoy, please...

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Answer 3

it is not about death. Do some research about how and when Frost wrote it. It was a result of what he called "auto-intoxication" after he stayed up all night writing an epic poem, a result of fatigue, not being suicidal.
The Road Not Taken (my favorite) was a teasing response to a friend who couldn't show him enough things in the woods near his house. At least according to the books I read about that. Go to the library ;-)

Answer 4

I had never seen this poem before, although I adore "The Road Not Taken" by him.

This poem is absolutely a masterpiece. The rhyming sequence is unbelievable. The unrhyming line in each verse rhymes in three lines of the next verse. Unbelievable.

The sentiments are symbolic I believe. But I don't know what they are referring to. They personify the horse, and the owner of the woods in a visual manner.

Is it about wanting to commit suicide? "Miles to go before I sleep, Miles to go before I sleep?" or is it a longing to escape from life's cares to the peace of death - in a natural death? I don't know.

Answer 5

Start at the last four lines, where he knows he ought to be in a hurry. Note that the horse agrees.

You can sing it to the tune of "Hernando's Hideaway."

He gives
his harn
ess bells a shake

To ask
if there
is some mistake

It's always fun to find a tune that you can sing a poem to.

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Answer 6

Some people say the poems about wanting to give up and die.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"

He could be saying, DEATH is "lovely dark and deep" but he chooses not to die because he has promises to keep and miles to go before he gets to sleep... or die... I LOVE THIS POEM!