Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening

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➢ Full name : Nguyễn Minh Hoàng ➢ Class : AV08B2 ➢ Student ID: 0857010069 ➢ Subject : American literature ➢ Topic : “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost If you used to linger around with Robert Frost’s verses, the likelihood that simple, yet mysterious natural scenery was sweeping over your place somehow came. Among these, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” has stood out enchanting hearts of millions. It is not because the poem was constructed by beautiful expressions that people love it. It is its simplicity of word usage, yet marvelously meaningful that helps make ways to homes of true poem lovers. The first stanza presents the first glimpse of the traveler: “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.” He is stopping by the woods of somebody who he knows. And because the owner whose house is in the village is not there, he is free to trespass. The woods are blanketed with snow. A question comes up: “Who actually is the lord of the woods?” Some say he is God, who has created this whole scenic beauty. Others think he may well be anybody in the village who the traveler claimed to know simply because he knew the kind of who and the where the owner was. It is the author’s talented craft that provokes different ways of interpretation. Whatever yours comes up to be, it possibly makes sense in this left-open discussion. The stanza depicts a rural picture with woods covered with snow which seems to be an escape that the author has found from the village-the noisy outer world or so. “My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The
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