Stanza by stanza summarization of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
– ROBERT FROST.
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 sound’s 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 away before I sleep,
And miles to go away before I sleep.
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Stanza – 1(Lines 1 – 4): In the very first line of the regarding the first stanza starts with a typical question, halfway through the line, the speaker of the poem switches it up. The speaker is not a confident person in the world. Initially, he wonders who occupies “these woods”.
The word makes us grasp that our speaker is exactly near to the woods in the revealed question. We got to know from the speaker that he is imparted by the owner who possesses the woods. Noticeable phenomena, how he doesn’t utter that he knows who owns these woods, rather he reveals he thinks he knows.
The speaker also thinks that the wood owner is a villager and at that village, his house is situated. In spite of that, the speaker is thinking that the woods got the owner of itself, then nothing to be worried about getting caught trespassing other people’s property. The speaker claims that the wood owner won’t be able to see him off, whether he is standing in the ground of the owner’s property or, not.
Because there is not the owner present by physical appearance, and also the owner won’t be able to catch or see him standing there and watching the owner’s woods fill up with snow and downy flake.
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Stanza – 2(Lines 5 – 8): The speaker of the poem goes out for traveling and he is not alone actually. He carries a little horse with him and he is riding on itself. A sudden moment comes that they have stopped. Just because of spending a lot of time with the pony horse, the speaker can read it’s mind.
On the basis of the speaker’s thought, the little horse can able to grasp or, realize whether there’s any kind of troubles are there and even near them or, not. The little horse is actually thinking of why they have been stopped whereas no farmhouse is found to stop for itself. They unfortunately hanging out between the woods and frozen lake. They are facing off snowy shoreline with dark trees and the glossy, ice-covered lake.
The weather is cold whereas the lake was cold. It is snowy and wintry as well as the night – time also. The light is drowned, snows are falling, and also darkness is fallen. Not only the condition is snowy and wintry, but also it is seeming or, approaching night time too. So, there’s no sunshine or, light existing now in this part of the earth. Noticeable facts are, the light is drowned, darkness falls and snows are falling.
They have recognized that the dangers, troubles, and the inauspicious portion of the night are surrounding at the regarding the place. Standing in his position, general people could have been lost their hopes and get fierce, rather the speaker has got the bravery and the gallantry as well. He has got the optimism to get spare from the situation by holding the nerves also.
Summarization of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stanza – 3(Lines 9 – 12): Actually, the speaker tries to read the little horse’s mind whether those responses on the basis of it’s grasp power or not, which will depict the signal of upcoming troubles.
Beyond the harness bells are shaken by the little horse, the speaker of the poem hears and grasps that at a certain moment another sound of “sweep” is coming.
That is such kinds of sound which come when people are supposed to sweep by dustpans, that sound is definitely recognized by the speaker himself. Meanwhile, the sweeping sound comes from the slight wind and softly falling snow which is mentioned (easy wind and downy flake) in the poem.
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Last stanza (Lines 13 – 16): In the end, the speaker reveals and admits that – “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,”. He likes the scenario of the exact wood that all he was talking about from the very beginning of the poem, and finally it happens actually.
That the same way he thinks and he tactically compares the regarding situations with life. Life is not actually a bed of roses. Our life is consisting of much troubles, difficulties along with auspicious and blissful days.
Life is also lovely dark and deep which is thought and typically compared with the woods of the regarding situation and poem. What the speaker actually thinks of keeping all the promises that are committed by the speaker of the poem. And the last two lines are evergreen lines and the poem is also evergreen as well.
The last two lines are eminent and famous forever and all time also. The speaker is not supposed to give up at all. He thinks that he has to go miles away before his death. He thinks that still a few miles to go away before he puts down his head on the pillow which refers to the dying moments. And miles to go away before the speaker of the poem sleeps.
Summarization of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Author: Avijit Chakrabarty Pritam.
Department: English Literature.
Institution: Notre Dame University Bangladesh.
Member of “ARE Writers Community”.
