Summary Of Poem Stooping By Woods On A Snowy Evening For Kids And Students |

 Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening is a poem written by Robert Frost in 1922. In this poem the speaker while going somewhere stops to see the snow falling through the trees and describes the darkness and his journey ahead in the poem. 

The poem describes a tranquil forest scene from the perspective of the narrator who is riding with his horse through the woods. This poem is written in iambic tetrameter. 

Plot Summary : 

In this poem, the speaker is riding on some vehicle through the forest. It may be a carriage or a sleigh. He says that he knows to whom this forested land belongs and that man lives in another village. 

The speaker says further that since the man lives in another village so the owner of the land will never know that the poet has stopped to watch the snowfall in the woods. 

Poet says that it his horse might be thinking that it was very strange for them to stop in the middle of the woods. rather than stopping near a house because it was very dark and cold. It was the night of the winter solstice in late December because it was the darkest night of the year. 

The horse shakes its harness and jingles bells and it looks that the horse wants to ask why the horse has stopped in the woods in the darkest night of the year. 

There was total silence in the woods apart from the sounds made by the horse there was only the sound of snowflakes falling down the trees. 

In the end, the speaker has a strong desire to stay in the forest but due to some promise made by him, he had to move further. 

so this was the plot summary of the poem stopping by the woods on a snowy evening by Rober frost. For more summaries you can visit our official blog StudyToons.