Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening essay

Body Robert Frost’s pastoral poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ stimulates new idea through the exploration of the conflicting forces of personal indulgence and obligation to others that lies at the heart of the human condition. Composed in tightly metrical iambic tetrameter and strictly structured Rubaiyat stanzas, the poem seeks to mimic the struggle between the polemical forces in its poetic form. Each quatrain, save the last, adheres to the AAB rhyming scheme as a way of further emphasising this existential crisis between freedom and conformity. Only one line in four remains unrhymed, as a metaphor for one’s desire to rebel against structure. However, the chain rhyme in the final stanza is suggestive of the persona’s discovery that the forces of obligation and conformity seemingly prevail in the end.