25.10.2010
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.

The title tells me of a lonely person directly in contact with nature.
In a winter evening the speaker stops his horse in the middle of a wood. Immediately the horse shows his surprise for the unespected stop. The speaker cannot stay long since his house is very far.

The poem has four stanzas of four lines, divided by a space. The rhymes are in pairs, but the third line is a chain with the next stanza.

In this poem the sounds of words are important, and convey sweetness and silence, only the sound of the wind and of the flakes are heard from nature, with the bells of the horse's harness.

The poem contains a lot of repetitions, alliterations and assonance. But it is not boring, instead the repetitions give a sense of sweetness and peace.

The language is common and not refined, very simple, perhaps to transmit a quiet relationshipwith nature.

We also can see the images described, so the poem is directed also to the reader's sight.

The message is not clear, we do not understand the reason of this stop, but we are fascinated by the images.