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To the poetic.
"Of easy and downy flake."//.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,".
We can see changes in the speaker attitude as if he answers the questions why he stopped by the woods. Apart from that, the closing repetition of the last stanza.
"And miles to go before I sleep,".
"And miles to go before I sleep.".
emphasizes the speaker commitment to his responsibilities. Frost made us realised how much the speaker wants to linger at the woods, but he is constantly reminded that he has more obligations to fulfil.
Dickinson is a free spirited writer, who expresses her thoughts through her own literary work. She uses inexact rhymes, dash to create pause and capital letters to emphasis on some of the words in her poem. Thus, she gives readers time to contemplate on the importance of the imagery she presents. For instance,.
"We paused before a House that seemed".
The word "House" is capitalised to emphasis the importance of the image. In this sense, she is not describing a place where we usually stay; she is making a reference to a new place which is her own grave. The "House" will consist of her dead body while her soul and spirit will remain immortal.
Unlike Dickinson, Frost writes in a conventional style. Like many of his poems, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is given a rhythmic feel. The rhythm exaggerates the seriousness of the poem. Moreover, this poem is one such rhyming success as we can listen to its sound. The rhyme scheme of the poem is aaba/bbcd/ccdc/dddd. The poem's rhyme is caught between a surge forward toward a new sound and a return to a sound repeated earlier. The pull and counter pull of the rhyme reflect the speaker uncertain feeling about his journey. (DiYanni, Robert.1990). Besides that, alliteration is also used in Frost's poem. For instance,.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep".
The words "dark" and "deep" imply the idea of peaceful sleep which is related to death. In Frost's poem, the speaker describes the "woods" as a place of attraction and threat.
