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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breathe nor motion.
The repetition conveys the sense of a long endless day.
A poet is impressed by the beauty of the woods on a
snowy evening, he says:
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.
Why does the poet repeat the same words in the last two lines?
He wants to emphasize that he must go even though he prefers to
stay longer.
Inversion
The emphatic place in the English sentence is the
beginning, is that if we wish to place particular emphasis on
something we bring it to the beginning of the sentence.
The inversion is made also when the poet wants to give
the required rhythm to the line
Why did Wordsworth say:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
The poem The Ancient Mariner says:
The sun now rose upon the right
Out of the sea came he.
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Robert Lee Frost:
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A Boy's Will (1913)
North of Boston (1914)
Mountain Interval (1916)
New Hampshire (1923)
West-Running Brook (1928)
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers (1929)
The Lone Striker (1933)
From Snow to Snow (1936)
A Further Range (1936)
A Witness Tree (1942)
Come In, and Other Poems (1943)
Masque of Reason (1945)
Steeple Bush (1947)
Hard Not to be King (1951)
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
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.
He the horse. Usually it would be used to refer
to animal.
sweep the blowing of the wind, perhaps with the
sound of a broom sweeping across a floor.
easy wind : the snow falls in soft bits or pieces,
like the down or soft feathers of a gooses.
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
1. Who seems to be the speaker in this poem?
2. Why did the man stop in the woods?
3. Where was he going when he stopped there?
4. How was he travelling?
5. Why does the horse think it strange for him to stop there?
6. Why does the horse shake his harness bells?
7. Point out the poetic device the poet sues to describe the
horse?
8. What is the other sound besides the shaking of the bells?
9. What images occur in the poem?
10. Why does the speaker of the poem leave the
place?
11. What is the literary meaning of the last 3 lines?
12. Discuss the central thought or the theme of the
poem?
End of
his Stopping By Woods on Snowy Evening.
Fire and I ce
by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I have tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice is also great
And would suffice.
For your Home work.
1. Read the poem and use all technics you
have learned to analyze and summarize the
pome.
Your opinion? Lets try.? ( ^ _ ^)
End of Week 6.