How Does Robert Frost's Poetry Affect The Works Of A Poet?

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Throughout Robert Frost poems; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “Acquainted by the Night” are poems that have a different mindset between the three poems. Frost poems focuses more on the journey the character has in the poem, rather than where the character is going to or coming from. As a reader, we learn more about the character’s decision rather than what route the character’s take during the poems…. In the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the speaker is stopping by some woods on a snowy evening. “He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow” (3-4). In this part of the poem, the character is silent due to the scenery he is seeing at the moment, and is very tempted to stay …show more content…

At the very beginning of the poem, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. And sorry I could not travel both” (1-2) the narrator is in the woods dealing with a fork in the road. One way leads somewhere that the other does not, but he can only choose one. Admitting to himself that he will take the other another day. Even though, the narrator knows that he probably won’t have the time to do so. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” (18-20). The narrator has finally chosen the way to go, yet thinking to himself that in the future about this very moment, and wondering if it would have been a different turn …show more content…

“I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light” (2-3). This implies that his acquaintance with the night is a journey and his journey into the night and rain also shows it is a different journey than the rest of the poems. “I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat” (4-5). The narrator looks out at society and sees all the time lonely outside the city. The narrator would not even look at the watchman, because the narrator didn’t want to explain why he was there. “One luminary clock against the sky” (12). ‘Luminary lock’ probably refers to the moon, but the narrator seems to be dissatisfied with the time it showed. Which brings the readers to the narrator repeating what he said in the beginning “I have been one acquainted with the night” (14) emphasizing that he has been acquainted with the