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Explication
Title: Explication
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 381 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Explication
In the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
presents us with the picture of an individual pausing in a journey to observe
the woods during an evening snowstorm. When the traveler's horse begins to
grow impatient, they reluctantly move on.
Beginning with lines stating that the narrator knows the owner of the
woods and where he resides, Frost assumes a familiarity with the subject of
the first stanza. It also seems that the narrator is expected, as it is
said, "He …showed first 85 words of 381 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 381 total…poem, we find the narrator nearly hypnotized and
longing for the dark beauty of the woods, or death. Only the responsibility
of unfinished business, and the stubbornness of the human spirit, keep him
going.
The poem is written in quatrain stanzas, and though there is a musical
quality to it, the iambic tetrameter lends it a slightly foreboding tone.
The rhyme scheme is A A B A, and is predominantly masculine. The last lines
are a rhyming couplet, giving emphasis to the final statement.
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