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SDuz - Textual analysis (Stopping By Woods on a Snowy evening)
by SDuz - (2011-01-18)
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The title of the poem is "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy evening" and it was written by Robert Frost. Just reading it I think it's strange because people generally stay at home when it snow, but in this case the protagonist is in front of a wood. Reading the title I suppose the story is setted in winter . The rhythm of the title like the one of all the poem is trochee. The title is an invitation for the reader to stop , it creates curiosity about why protagonist stop. In the poem there are 4 stanzas, and in each stanza there are 4 lines.
In the first line there is an alliteration of the letter -w that may remember an howl of a wolf.
In the first line there's also an anaphoric structure(I - I, assonance). In the second line there is an other alliteration(his/house), but there's also a sibilance(his house his). So, I can understand that the protagonist is a man, and the speaking voice is the poet.
In the third line there is an assonance, a repetition of the vowel sound(see me). The profound vowel sounds in the whole poem add sadness, and create breaks.
His harness bells is a sibilance.
Sweep is an onomatopoeia, that imitate the sound of the wind.
There is an other alliteration dark and deep, in the fourteenth line.
And miles to go before I sleep is a repetition of the line, to focus the reader attention to the final of this poem, because is one of the first element you can see reading the poem..