There is no specification as to why the poet has stopped at this particular spot. The poet thinks the owner of the woods stays in the village, and he would not see the poet encroach on his property. It’s heavily snowing, and the poet can hear the extreme feeble sound of the wind blowing through the woods. The scene highlights a frozen lake since the houses in the dark woods are beyond the poet’s vision. The first stanza says he stops to watch the woods fill up with snow and totally becomes engrossed in sight. The poem narrates the story of a traveler passing through a lonely snow-clad countryside on the darkest night of the year on a horse. To rephrase it – there’s so much to do in life but so little time in hand. The backdrop of the poem is the journey of life and its intricate distractions that come along with it. Superficially, this poem presents itself as a straightforward piece of work, but deep down, there’s a lot to be uncovered. The rhyming scheme followed is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD. Albeit as an exception to the aforesaid, all the lines of the last stanza are rhyming. It can be noted that in each verse, the first, second, and third lines rhyme but not the fourth. The poem consists of four identically constructed stanzas of four lines, each with each line being written in iambic tetrameter, with four stressed syllables. As time passes, his horse gives his harness bells a shake as a reminder, and Frost gets a mood uplift to continue his way home. Depressed by the financial shortfall to buy Christmas gifts for his dear children, he is said to have stopped his horse at a bend in the road to cry his heart out. The poem is said to have been inspired by a tough winter in New Hampshire when Frost was returning home after an uneventful day at the market. I guess I could relate to most of the lines of the poem. If my memory serves me well, I don’t think I have ever loved any other poem so passionately than this. Since then, it has been fed into my long term memory and has never left me. This famous poem was introduced to me in school. He was also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his contribution to the field of poetry. The poem was written in 1922 and published in 1923 as a part of his poetry collection New Hampshire which went on to win four Pulitzer prizes as well. Robert Frost was born on 26 March, 1874 in San Francisco (California, U.S) and died on 29 January, 1963, in Boston (Massachusetts). Those lines are from the very famous American poet, Robert Lee Frost’s most celebrated poem – Stopping by woods on a snowy evening.
This very morning I heard a feeble voice inside whispering, “And miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep.” Yes, the guess was right. She honestly admits having a somewhat unhealthy obsession with cooking, sketching, and drawing. When she is not reading she can be seen shaking her leg to some tune in her head – in her cookhouse! She ruthlessly feeds her addiction to great cricket and movies as well. The roles she juggles on the personal front are that of an unruly daughter, a pestering wife, a nagging mother, and an over-protective elder sister. She is also the co-author of anthologies – DESTINY OF THE SOLSTICE and ALFAAZON KI UDAAN (Shrihind Publications), HEART OUT (Unvoiced Heart Publications), ELIXIR OF WORDS and WIND (The Write Order), ENHANCE YOUR SOUL (TDS Publications) ALAM (Quilling Heart Publications) & EUPHORIA and BLEEDING INK (Daiso Publications). As a freelance writer, she has produced some great reads on online platforms like The ArmChair Journal and Unverbalise. And to add a little spice to life, she wrapped it up with a master’s in Business Administration (HR) from ICFAI University.Īt present, she works as an IELTS Trainer with a reputed foreign education consultant. She is certified with a master’s in Microbiology from Bharathiar University. Pooja Warrier, a product of the ’80s, was born in a small town in Thrissur (Kerala) and raised in Abu Dhabi (U.A.E) where she completed her schooling.
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