Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Analysis Narrative Essay Example

ugh the first two lines of each stanza.The first two lines of the last stanza carry such a great weight precisely because they reinforce the internal struggle of the narrator who in a certain sense wants to be able to continue to contemplate the natural wonder of the ‘lovely, dark, and deep’ woods but at the same time realizes he ‘has promises to keep’.

There is an inherent disconnect between his wonder for the natural world and the constraints placed upon his life by the world made by humankind.The most subtle and possibly most interesting question the poem presents is what fate ultimately awaits the narrator on this ‘darkest night of the year’. Does he choose the slow and agonizing death that his mundane existence promises with the carrying out of his everyday modern responsibilities? Or, does he turn his back on that