Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost 

Kendrick Young 

This poem is very interesting. I think it starts out by the spealer looking for a place to stay and goes wondering on the woods and finds a home to hide out and rest and it sounds like the owner doesn't know about it.                

"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 "
What I also like it the imagery and how he uses it to express himself and where the speaker is. I feel as if the speaker is someons who is on a mission and and has to stop and rest. The speaker starts talking to the horse and how weird it is to be there in the woods  without a farmhouse nearby and how the lake and the woods make it the darkest evening of the year and it sounds like such a beautiful sight to see

"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. 
In the second stanza he starts to say what the horse does and what he sounds like and it sounds like a dark cold and windy night. At this point I feel like there has been a shift of how the reader is talking about something else. Again he begins to talk about where he stopped and what he was doing and now he is talking about how cold it is and the weeping of the chills. And now it is snowing. 

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. 
At this part i get the poem but is also the confusing part of the story because it is now more and more imagery words and now it is another shift. This shift is the meaning shift of the poem. He starts talking about the promises he had and I have no idea because who did he promise to do. But you can also detect that she is motivated and dedicated to do what she has to do because she is continuing what she has to do. The speaker goes on because he has “promises to keep?” But the word “promises” though it may here have a wry ironic undertone of regret, has a favorable connotation: people almost universally agree that promises ought to be kept. If the poet had used a different term, say, “things to do,” or “business to attend to,” or “financial affairs to take care of,” or “money to make,”

the connotations would have been quite different. As it is, the tone of the poet tells us that the poet is sympathetic to the speaker.  The theme of this poem is to never give up and never break a promise and do whatever you gotta do to keep that promise