Also, it should be noted that the poem tells about the darkest evening of the year (apparently, December 21-22), but was written in the lightest night – the night of June 22, at the dawn of the longest day of the year. Of course, this circumstance may not mean anything, but since Frost, himself found it worthy of mention, it can be assumed that in this “mirror” element some irony is concealed, or maybe the poet tried to stress spatial and temporal distance that separates human emotions from its poetic expression.
The first reading of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” strikes the reader with charming simplicity. The poem captures a static picture, common for pastoral poetry. By an unexpected stop in the snow-covered wood, the poet stops the moment and shows its beauty, making the reader think about the meaning of life. The recognition that the wood is beautiful with all its darkness and mystery (“The woods are lovely, dark and deep”) is equivalent to the recognition of the beauty of stopped moments.
Imagination immediately offers a textbook description of winter landscape: “the land wrapped into a thick white blanket, the forest edge with snowy fir trees, the ice lake, the low gray sky, which is almost invisible through the snowflakes, and in the midst of this silence there is a still frozen horse and sleds, with a man charmed by the beauty of nature” (Tuten & Zubizarreta, 2001).
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