As said by Novala Takemoto, “Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity” (Snow Sayings and Quotes). Takemoto is talking about how the sight of snow fills his heart with a certain joy that he does not get with anything else. An American poet named Robert Frost had the same view. Frost wrote a great deal of poetry throughout his long lifetime, many being about snow. He used it with many different, nonliteral meanings. Robert Frost uses snow throughout his poetry in a variety of metaphorical ways.
Born in 1874, Robert Frost was a proud Californian city boy. Moving to New England in 1884 with his mom, he soon became assimilated to the New England culture with typical things such as speaking.
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After his father’s passing in 1884, Frost and his family did not have the money to fly back to their home in San Francisco. Therefore, Frost, his mother, and his sister settled in Massachusetts. This sparked Frost’s love for snow and poetry. As his life progressed, Frost had been diagnosed with illnesses that affected his lungs, such as tuberculosis and pneumonia, which weakened his lungs. His doctor recommended for him move south during the winter for the remainder of his life, which meant Frost would not see snow while in his home in Florida. Frost, soon, passed away from a complication in surgery, his love of snow shown in his poetry (Robert Lee …show more content…
He uses snow to show this in his poem ‘Stopping by the Woods on A Snowy Evening’. The poem is known as a deep thinking poem throughout many critics (Criticism: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening). This poem is about a man in his horse stopping and admire the beauty of the dark, winter night. The speaker is strangely attracted by the darkness. However, he fears that if he enters the darkness, he will not be able to fulfil what he needs to in life. This has to do with snow because the speaker just wants to watch the snow when he stops to ponder if he should go into the dark. The metaphorical explanation of this poem is the man observing the snow is not entirely sure if he is ready to die yet. The poem uses the line “and miles to go before I sleep” as a way to describe that. He is pondering this while he and his horse are stopped and admiring the snow (Plot Summary: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy