What does it mean to you?

Hey everyone! So in Language Arts we've been talking about what poems potray to you! So here is a poem by Robert Frost that could have MULTIPLE different meanings.

Whose woods there 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.

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.


So, now you would examine what this poem means to you. This is what I think.

The way Robert Frost is speaking seems like he is stuck on the edge of reality and death. Although it tells about him walking or riding to wherever he is going it sounds as though he is visting places he once lived or where he once was. Now the thing about this poem is the last stanza. Same rhyme scheme. Deep, keep, sleep, sleep. If he were to keep going the poem wouldn't end because of the rhyme scheme being the same. Now, the last two lines are interesting also because they are, obviously, the same. Now even though they are the same they could mean something totally different. The first could protray his living life when he was alive and the second could represent death.


So thats all for now. If you break poems down it helps you understand more about what the writer is trying to say!

Bye!

~Maddie