![]() ![]() ![]() This immediately raises a question, although is it easily missed, coming so early in the poem. In the opening verse, the narrator places us in woods outside a village. Fortunately, Frost can be enigmatic, so if we want to make sense of this poem, we must be prepared dig a little. However, if a literary work does not address the human condition in some way, and has only creamy charm to commend it, it must be considered inconsequential. The poem makes few demands on the reader: the structure and rhyme scheme are conventional, the poem is short, as are the word and line lengths, and it contains no literary references or allusions. It stands equal to Wordsworth's Daffodils, inasmuch as it is picturesque and enormously popular. ![]() As such, it is superbly crafted, and with few blemishes. Taken at face value, Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is a pastoral poem describing a rider's pause on a journey to admire some scenery. ![]()
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