Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Summary

Being alive for 18 years now, comes along with having many experiences. I have taken in an extensive amount of knowledge from these experiences, from the mistakes I have made and the success that followed. Reflecting on past experiences I feel is always great practice. Not only to relive a past memory but to also better yourself for the future events to come. The times I have done so prior to performing an action, always made me go into the situation feeling better due to the knowledge of past mistakes, and achievements. In Steven Monte’s overview of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” he highlights this idea of reflecting on past events. I was struck by this because of the fact that I do this same exact thing every day. The way Monte describes it is the same way I view reflecting on the past. That it “seems to be just that pausing and reflecting on experience help us re-enter life with a new understanding and sense of direction” (Monte Par. 1). Reflection can be viewed as the overall message or theme of the story for that being he goes into the forest and pauses life and looks back on the past. Since I

He states that “Reflecting on experience help us re-enter life with a new understanding and sense of direction.”(Monte Par. 1). Which this is true due to the fact that reflecting, allows one to relive a past event and learn from it, to prepare for future situations. It gives a person the opportunity to see what they have done wrong or right in the past to use that knowledge in the future. The speaker acknowledges this in the poem as he says, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”(Frost Par. 4). Even though this pause in his life was brief, the advantages are in his favor for the many miles and challenges to come, due to his