'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' - Robert Frost (Powerful Life Poetry) 

Sheila Wollen - A great teacher who guided me. Rest in peace.

If it is not too late, you should visit him. He would likely be delighted to see you.

@@Telephonebill51 I've thought about looking him up, seeing if I could find him. Coincidentally I also had his wife as my 5th grade teacher.

I love this poem

My high school shop teacher loved this one. He was full of poetry, old Mr Lockley...

Do you mean the poems?

@@SovereignStatesman Any poems that you love or that leave trails of gold in your soul.

Poetry saved my life.

So true!

Or a topic to bring up when needed.

Life goes on. That's the sad part about it :\

whoever does not know him is his loss...

I owe it to my English teacher for educating me about R. Frost!

Can you please explain it my friend?

@@thesattva.m There are numerous interpretations of this. I interpret it as when faced with adversity or obstacles, to truly deal with them you must face them, acknowledge them and break through them. This is harder than trying to avoid them or go around them. Whilst these options may be easier in the short term, in the long run the things you are running from will catch up to you. Therefore, the only way to escape these things, to move past them is directly through. Tackling them and ultimately the things that stand in the way become the way.

@@QuietlyMagnetic thank you bro 👌🏻

@@thesattva.m It is, in one sense, about desire and reality. The weary traveller yearns for rest from his arduous journey. He cannot, however, afford this luxury of rest because in reality, he has to fulfil the pressing commitments that he has made ('promises to keep'). So too, on life's long and winding road: we have to often sacrifice our desires in order to fulfil the promises we make. Some readers also interpret this poem as the implied expression of the speaker's death wish - as an escape from the struggles of life. Very interesting.

The Marines have a similar saying I believe "the only way is forward".

The Nosleeppodcast did a story that included those lines, and I was so moved that I decided poetry was something I'd very much like to understand

Did you know what he's trying to say?

@@chumil9426 hi, i think that in this part of the poem, it describes the peaceful side of death and suicidal thoughts; accordingly, in the last continent, he gave up the idea of ​​suicide on the grounds that he still had work to be done.. maybe..

I am a retired English professor.Although many have misinterpreted this poem as being about suicide, it is NOT, said Robert Frost in an interview I saw years ago. He was angry at such a reading, emphasizing had it been about suicide he would have written the last line once, but he wrote it twice to affirm the narrators intention to live. @@hvildan

@@chumil9426Four of the most perfect lines ever written. Along with Shakespeare’s Hamlet pontificating with his To Be Or Not To Be, this is a perfect rumination on life and death, the pursuit of meaning vs the desire for oblivion That moment of perceived bliss is broken by the moment of reality, we’ve miles to go…repeat the line…live your life.

You should read " Birches"- another Robert Frost poem. 🎄🍁

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I hope you made it out of the dark room friend. I’m sitting in mine. Hope you are well

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Can u explain it to me?

@@James32529 I'm not sure, but the way I interpret it is that, in a hectic and chaotic life, the narrator is almost stopping for a moment to relax, but then has to continue, because there is much he needs to do, and a lot longer until he sleeps, or can rest. Again, this is my interpretation though.

@@danielle7760 You have kind of summed it up well.

My interpretation is that no matter how comfortable things seems to be, there are lots of things one needs to do before they die.

I see it as the call of the void, when someone is depressed. It can feel so beautiful and right. But in this life, we have responsibilities, we cannot give in to the temptation of laying it all down.

That is my surname!

It's originally "Ó'Ríordáin" i nGaeilge/Irish. It means "Poet of the King" which is very appropriate here.

@@jeffreardon3969 any relation to a Mr. Reardon from Vermont? He was by far my favorite teacher. He made poetry and the English language fun.

@@Martin-sp4zf thanks! That's awesome!

@@abumuad Sorry no relation. Born in Cambridge. Greater Boston native.

Absolutely

I have a tattoo of this line on my right arm (: it has always moved me.

He got through👍🏼

@@katherineloughry1021 Happy to know.

It IS one of the best lines ever written!

So cute

Hey one Pakistani to another Mujhe us ki awaz se der lagta heh

@@exotic_aqua5765 powerful voice hai bro. Indian here

Are you from Gomtinagar, Lucknow?

Hope you are well….is it not strange strangers can feel the same reverence at words?

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Can you explain the poem in few lines please

The author was travelling, when he gets stopped by these beautiful woods covered by snow. He wonders who the owner is, because he's in the village and the owner wouldn't see the author stop by those woods. Now that he stopped here, he says his horse feels strange as there is no farmhouse nearby, but a frozen lake and woods on a Dec 21st (darkest evening of the year). So, his horse shakes its bells and reminds the author that they have to leave. (This is a metaphor that one has to move towards their purpose, no matter how many distractions there are in their life.) Finally, he mentions how lovely the woods are, but at the same time dark and deep too, meaning that you cannot stay there for a longer period. Because the author has to fulfill his responsibilities ("I have promises to keep") . Now, come the most beautiful lines and my favorite ones, "And miles to go before I sleep." This line is repeated twice because the first sleep is going to bed, while the next sleep is death. So the author mentions that he has miles to travel (goals to achieve) before he sleeps for the night and before he sleeps forever. :) P. S : There could be additions too, for these. I've written what I remember from my 8th grade, 7 years back. 😁

@@it46vistargupta19 Hope it helped you.

@@phanilasyaviaradhyula884 Thank You, I also remember this , Ozymandias by Percy Bussy Shelley, The thing of Beauty by John Keats, The Solitart Reaper, and many, I remember stopping by woods in snows evening by Robert Frost , but I like to listen to other peoples interpretation of the poem to understand poem much better, thanks

@@it46vistargupta19 Oh yes, I too remember those! Also, Miracle by Walt Whitman and Daffodils by William Wordsworth add up to the list. As for the interpretation part, I hope there are no mistakes, if yes do let me know.

@@Timothy_Bagel what's that emoji 😭

I think that's what the poem is exactly about. Taking in the tragic beauty of a cold world, and being tempted by the sweet release of oblivion, it's lovely, dark, and deep siren like call. Specially in our darkest hours of the year. But we do have promises to keep, people who are counting on us, and so long as we hear the call of others, that sense of being needed, of having a purpose... that final sleep will have to wait.

The messages behind are our life dreams/duties before sleeping (death métaphore)

From what I've read of him this seems perfect for Pandit Nehru. Namaste from the US🙏💖🌈🙏✌️

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