Saturday, June 07, 2008

Stopping by woods

We were introduced to this poem at primary school. At that age I could recognise that it was one which particularly moved my teacher, but I could not understand why

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

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

Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Now, I think it must have been his experiences of the War which made it so special to him