4.4 Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening

First Reading

As you read "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost the first time, try to understand the "gist" (a sense of what the poem is about and a sense of how it may be read) of the poem.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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.