Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
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.
Imagery in poetry is about the descriptive
and figurative "pictures" we imagine with
our mind's eyes, skin, nose, ears, and tongue
(mental images)
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.
Imagery in poetry is about the descriptive
and figurative "pictures" we imagine with
our mind's eyes, skin, nose, ears, and tongue
(mental images)
THE KINDS OF IMAGERY:
Visual - seen in the mind's eye
Olfactory - smell
The DESCRIPTIVE MENTAL PICTURES
of the aforementioned poem:
of the aforementioned poem:
VISUAL | AUDITORY | OLFACTORY |
woods | bells | |
house | wind | |
village | flake | |
snow | ||
horse | ||
farmhouse | ||
frozen lake | ||
darkness of the evening | ||
bells | ||
GUSTATORY | TACTILE | ORGANIC | KINESTHETIC |
snow | stopping | ||
shaking of the bells | |||
sleep | |||
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