The 18th century also produced significant developments in poetry and fiction and not just political writings, diaries, and autobiographies. American Romanticism, also known as the American Renaissance, begins American literature direction towards independence from Europeans. The period after the Civil War up to World War I was known as the Realism and Naturalism period. The period known between the First World War, Depression, and World War II, was when all the different types of American Li

The person in the poem has associated the woods with a thought of his own place of paradise. The peacefulness, darkness, and silence are all important to the speaker paradise. The snow symbolizes purity and peacefulness to the person in the poem feels while stopping at the woods. Darkness can symbolize a few couple of things. It may symbolize the undisturbed nature of the woods. Darkness may also symbolize the mystery of the yet to be discovered secrets that lie within the woods. In the poem it seems as if the person in the poem doesn’t want to leave this place he calls paradise, but he has made promises that he must keep. “But I have promises to keep” (Line 14). The last two lines when the person states that they have miles to go before they sleep in lines 15 and 16 of the poem, shows the importance of this promise and is the reason they have to leave( Gray 90- 100).

Many people have associated the meaning of the poem with death, because of the poems rhythm. The poem uses and unusual rhyme scheme: AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD. Each stanza (with the exception of the last) has one line rhyme with the next stanza’s dominant rhyme. This scheme links the stanzas together and makes the poem seem harmonious in conveying meaning. In the last stanza, all of the lines rhyme, thus deviating from the rhyme pattern of earlier stanzas. In fact, the last line is a repetition of the hard line: “And miles to go before I sleep.” When the third line is repeated, it has the effect of slowing the tempo right down. This can actually lead us to think sleep or as some may think death (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/woods.html>

Robert Frost’s Poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening can and has been interpreted in many ways. Most people have seen the poem to represent a death wish or perhaps just a person going to the woods to find a peace of mind. Others have interpreted the poem as Frost expressing his love of nature. Frost’s love of nature is expressed in the setting of the poem, which happens to be the woods. Robert Frost uses detailed description in the poem to bring lively images to readers. Frost us

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