Whose woods these 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.
I’m not sure what the meaning in maybe it is about Santa Claus, maybe about life, but I like this poem alot.
I adore this poem, coming from the UK I have wealth of poets at my disposal (as do we all), Shelley, Keates, Tennyson and Byron to name but a few! However, Robert Frost is one of my all time favourites, he ranks with them all! The imagery he portrays in so few lines is sheer mastery, I studied the poem at school and still after all these years, it never fails to conjure up the most invocative of meanings. I also love The Road Not Taken, but that is another story….
I think this poem means that you need to every once and a while you need to stop and be thankful for what is around you because in the poem he quotes,”the horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near”,then he says, ”I have promises to keep and miles and miles to go before I sleep.”I am a 4th grade reader and I like this poem.
this poem is one of my best heard ones.first of all,Robert Frost is one of the best poets,he is also a nature poet.he has good ideas and imageneries and the readers too can get some asthetic sense also.
Sometimes, life presents individuals with situations which allow for both an easy and difficult exit, the choice depending only upon the person. I feel the “dark woods”, can be the throws of addiction. Though the woods are “lovely, dark, and deep”, we as people have “promises to keep” in fulfilling our life’s purposes as willed by God. This cannot be done with a life slaved to our drug. Although the easy choice is “lovely”, we must know to choose the better path.
He wants to lay down and sleep, but he still has things he must accomplish. He is too attached to let go and lay down his head… Yet he’s stopped in this wood on the darkest eve of the year. The little horse is worried. They are stopped.
This poem never really made much sense to me until I heard it as composed by Eric Whitacre. It was really hard to connect with the emotion; now I find it hard not to.
I am not sure in specific what he is contemplating, wether it be suicide, affair, crime, ect. But my opinion on this, is that he is faced with the easy way out. But he knows his responsibility and must go on. I find it absolutely beautiful and optimistic, saying that it will get better and must find happiness.
very cute!
This poem makes me feel cold. I also feel sad. It is about cows in a forest and they need some hay. They want to go to sleep in a warm barn but the
man on the horse wants to go to the village to drink some coffee. He will need to go many miles and then come back to put the cows to bed.
his poems are my love
his poems are my dreams
when i read them i fly like a white dove
and when i read
one that makes me feel
that i may need
his poems to make me real
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i love this poem, it is one of my favourite. i agree with the comments that this is about life and the journey we have to take, it speaks to the resilience in mankind and the hopes and dreams we must strive for without quitting.i think frost has done a great job of describing this scene. the imageries are profound.
por que muchas personas opinnan que el poema es acerca del suicidio pude que que los demas lestorees tengan una vida muy complicadac
ACTUALY I FIND THIS POEM VERY INTERESTIN.THE POEM GIVES US AVIVID PICTURE OF A DAK SOWY EVENNING IN WITER.HTE POEM IS FULL OF IMAGENARIES AND IT CREATES A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE IN READERS MIND.I STUDIED THIS POEM FOR LITRATUUER IN MY SCHOOL.I FIND IT VERY INTERSTING.THE LAST LINES HAVE A DEEP MEANING IN IT.IT SAYS THAT HTE RIDER HAS TO FULFILL HIS DUTIES BEFORE HE DIES.SLEP INDICATES DEATH.THOUGH HE GIVES A DEEP MEANING THROUGH HIS POEM HE PRESENTS IT VERY BEAUTIFULLY THROUGH IMAGENARIE.I LIKE THE POEM VERY MUCH.
i think it’s about a guy who goes here every year during winter and chill out there becuase it’s really peaceful and nice to him when he wants to get away by himself before he heads out again to start his journey to find some where to rest and sleep.
I felt this poem as a good one which encourages us for our future life through the last 2 lines “And miles to go before I sleep”. This tells us that we have much more jobs to do in our life
I actually believe the woods to be death. Death seems lovely at times, and it is especially dark and deep, but there is a long journey ahead before we can sleep.
After I read the last four lines, they helped me understand that even though death seems so beautiful, I have a life to lead before I can journey into those woods.
Instead of observing the beauty of life, I rather feel he was observing the beauty of death.
I didn’t understand anything after reading this poem. Ha ha ha
This poem has nothing to do with sex.
It`s simply opening one`s eyes to the beauty around us.
Savouring the moment.
I refer that lady to the poem `Leisure` by W.H.Davies.
The first time i read this the image that came to me wa a man about to have sex with a next man’s wife and thats not the only lady he has to visit, he has more than one more visit to make for the night. This actually makes perfect sense if you read the poem thinking that way. Then it could mean what other people with their heads out of the gutter would think its a man on the journey of life stopping for a while to observe the beauty of life before going on the road of life again. Personally i think the first explanation goes better with the poem.