What kind of sounds are they? Apart from the sound of his horse’s harness bell, the poet hears the sound of the sweeping wind and falling snow flakes.

Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in the same lines such as the consistent use of /w/, /wh/ and /s/ sounds. The following phrases are examples of alliteration from the poem: “watch his woods”, “sound’s the sweep”, “His house”.

”Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a poem by the American poet Robert Frost. It is set in a wood in the middle of winter. The speaker is a traveler who stops his horse in order to watch the snow fill the dark forest.

The main message given by the poem is that we shouldn’t be tempted by our surrounding and all of us should fulfill our duties before our time ends or before our death. The main message is to relate this story with our lives.

In the poem ‘The Prayer of the Woods’ a tree speaks to the travellers who are starting their journey through the forest. It tells them how useful the trees are to the human beings. They are used by human beings at home and at work. They are useful in heat and cold.

The main message given by this poem is that we should not get tempted to any enjoyable things we see around us. We should not rest until our work is completed. We shouldn’t be tempted by our surrounding and all of us should fulfill our duties before our time ends or before our death.

The narrator stops because he wants to enjoy the scenery of the forest. Assuming that the journey the narrator has to make is an extensive one (miles to go before I sleep), the narrator wants to take a small break to watch the natural wonder of the snowfall and the beauty of the trees.

The horse thinks it is “queer” or odd to stop in the middle of the woods because it seems his owner never does this. We know this because the speaker tells us that his “little” horse is used to stopping near farmhouses.

Answer. Answer: The woods belonged to a man named Elbert. He was also the man who helped the poet reach his home safe from the woods after writing the poem .

This thought of the speaker is triggered by the shaking of the harness bells of the horse, as if it is asking its owner whether there is some mistake. But it was actually a deliberate stop from the speaker. But from a symbolic point of view this ‘mistake’ is the mistake of getting distracted by the temptations of life.

If this question is from….. Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening….. Then its answer is, Horse was surprised by his master’s decision, stopping far away from a farm house and shakes his harness bells in impatient.

So why are they stopping? The poet cannot explain either to the owner of the woods or to his horse that he is stopping because of the striking beauty of the sight of the trees being covered with the slowly drifting snow.

According to the narrator, the horse was giving a shake to his harness bells to ask him whether there was a mistake. employs a fine piece of personification of the horse. It is addressed like a human being as ‘He’ and the verb ‘to ask’ is used to give it even more prominence.

Answer. Explanation: The horse is puzzled because horses are creatures of habit, and this horse is likely to not be accustomed to stopping in the middle of nowhere. The horse has a moment of impatience, shaking his harness bells, “To ask if there is some mistake” (line 10).

Answer : The horse must find it queer that the speaker halted at a place between the woods and frozen lake on such a cold and dark evening ,when there was heavy snowfall. The horse knows that they have not reached their destination and does not understand the reason why the poet stops unnecessarily in the woods.

Answer. Answer: he stops near a farmhouse and watches the snow fall for a time.

Answer: The rider was going to fulfil his responsibilities.

Answer: Apart from the sound of his horse’s harness bell, the poet hears the sound of the sweeping wind and falling snow flakes.

However, symbolically the word “sleep” suggests death and darkness. Hence, this line refers to a long journey ahead before the speaker could go to eternal sleep of death, or it simply proposes that the speaker has many responsibilities to fulfill before sleeping or dying.

Why the poet has used the same line twice? Answer: In order to emphasize the fact that he has to fulfill his duties and responsibilities before his death, the poet has used the same line twice. Miles to go refers to leading the rest of his life until his death.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening