Stopping by Pandemic in a Snowy Year

Stopping by Pandemic in a Snowy Year | “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. In the poem that depicts the weariness that pervades an individual to an extent that one can think of even putting an end to his life.

But the poem takes a sudden reverse and we see that optimism wins the game of chess against pessimism. Robert Frost poem influence people to not to go through depression anxiety and all of those negative thinking that they are getting at the moment, but people have to be getting the courage to face the problems Human race are facing at the moment end don’t think about it. At the moment because they have a long life to leave.

The setting of the poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” is set in a northern forest. mentioned about the village, and the frozen lake. The time of the poem was “the darkest night of the year.” then it would be the time the longest night of the year, which is December 21st or 22nd.

Stopping by Pandemic in a Snowy Year

Our current psychological state is imbalance due to the current pandemic (COVID19). People are losing hope, they are felling in the dirk, and being a stone, they cannot move. The human is together are strong but the pandemic is forcing them to stay away for each other.

Humans are feeling alone. Because of that people are feeling sadness, anxiety, depression, hopelessness, insecurity, etc. But Frost’s ideas from his poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” reflect. Humans have the power to overcome negative feelings and go like the stanza from this poem. –

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.

(Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Stanza 4, Lines 13-16)

The lines of frost’s poem are like ointment on cut wounds, and it is effective because it gives people hope. The hope keeps the human to go farther. Humans are stronger together but the mind of a human is stronger when they have hope.

Stopping by Pandemic in a Snowy Year

Conclusion

People are looking at this wooden world from their homes because the snow is falling in the world. It looks like a snowstorm. The earth is closing. The world is closing and people stop to see the fallen snow on the world. There is nature is not watching the people. It looks like the world is not moving because the lake is frozen. The reason is the world was floating on the lake.

It felt like the darkest and the longest evening of the year. The reason is the morning with the warm sunlight is not coming to malt the snow and the frozen lake to release the world to move. The world is lovely, dark and deep, But the human and humanity have promises to keep, and miles to go before the human sleep, and miles to go before humanity to sleep.

Author: R.S. Ador