all. Frost makes describe of a bad Hollywood condition, in Hollywood, even friendship has become commoditised. Everything is business and money.
In this great poem, the moral value that we can obtain is awareness, honesty and no corruption. God forbid the human to do this bad action, because it
can cause poor society and the prosperity is not felt equally. Government should give a serious punishment to the people who proved as corruptors.
4.5 Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is generally regarded as Frosts masterpiece. The poem is written in 1923 for which he won the first of his four
Pulitzer Prizes. It is Frosts most famous poem. Frost wrote this poem about winter in June, 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont that is now home to the
Robert Frost Stone House Museum. Frost had been up the entire night writing the long poem New Hampshire and had finally finished when he realized
morning had come. He went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening. He wrote the new poem about the snowy evening and the little horse as if Id had a hallucination in just a few minutes without
strain. The speaker in the poem, a traveller by horse on the darkest night of the year, stops to gaze at a woods filling up with snow. In order to understand the
poem well, below is the poem: Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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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 before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep
The first stanza talk about that a man is returning home at dusk in his one-horse sleigh stops to enjoy the peace and beauty occasion that the snow is
falling so softly and covered the woods. There is no other human but he thinks the owner of these woods is someone who lives in the village and will not see the
speaker stopping on his property. Below is the first stanza:
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
In the second stanza, the man does not find any farmhouse in the wood. It seems that the wood is isolated. Only he and his horse are there, so he talks to his
horse. He says to him to think it queer. The speaker in the poem is not alone, as he seems to be in the first stanza, and we sense conflict of some sort between him
and the horse. The horse having been given some human characteristics, below is the second stanza:
My little horse must think it queer
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To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year
While the speaker continues to gaze into the snowy woods, his little horse impatiently shakes the bells of its harness. The speaker describes the beauty and
allure of the woods as “lovely, dark, and deep,” when the horse “gives his harness bells a shake,’ the narrator depends on our ability to hear these sounds. It presents
to the readers his concrete world of things, and recalls the sight and feel of them. Below is the third stanza:
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.
In the fourth stanza, the man realizes that he actually has another task to do. He gaze at the woods that so beautiful covered by the snow but he must leave
the wood to continue his journey. He still has distance to go by and so with the promises which must be kept. In this stanza, the narrator makes repetition, and
according to the writer this sentence means he, the man, still has distance to do and he warns himself that he must keep his promises, because it is the most
important thing than enjoyment of life.
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.
The moral value that the writer found in this poem is about responsibility more than everything; The narrator wants to tell us not about just responsible but
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to keep the promise that you make. The two last sentence not only warn the author but also it goes to us for thinking that keep the promise is the most important and
such an obligation to do that thing than ignore it to do the timeless. In addition this poem actually gives the moral value about attitude towards life. Some people
may behave and do without thinking anybody else, but some of them may not, life is a duty; so that life must be run as good otherwise we can not feel regret in our
life.
4.6 The Road not Taken
