Stopping by woods on a snowy evening is perhaps the most well known poem by ROBERT FROST ; in fact, this is the single poem through which FROST is known to many . This poem is suggestive of profound thoughts and utterances about human life and death, the great leveler.
The poem opens with the speaker standing in the woods. The scene and means employed to portray it, call our attention. Across the road from the woods that the speaker is passing through, there is a frozen lake. Houses are beyond the vision of the speaker and the quietness marks the scene. It is snowing heavily and the speaker can hear the soft and almost inaudible sound made by wind and the soft snow-flakes falling in the woods.
The dark woods perhaps symbolize the dark, impenetrable, unfathomable mystery of life, and snow as usual symbolizes the cold destructive force called death. …
