Robert Frosts Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening

Contemplating Suicide Analyzing Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening What is poetry? Poetry is a lyrical way of expressing emotion. It is language charged with meaning and framed to be heard for contemplation. Poetry is a pleasant sounding work; the emotions that drive the words fill poetry with deep meaning. The reader must analyze every word to get the full meaning of a poem. An excellent example of deeper meaning within …

…Understanding that the man in the poem is contemplating suicide opens the poem up to be much more than four trivial stanzas. It becomes a picture of how someone who might be contemplating suicide thinks and feels. Searching for the complete understanding of a poem is like a journey for the reader; the destination is reached when the author’s true meaning is successfully conveyed. Works Cited Guth, Rico. Discovering Literature. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996.