A Stylistic Analysis of Robert Frost’s
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Abstract
This paper gives a stylistic analysis of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by American poet Robert Frost, and then proves how the author achieves his expected goal through attracting readers' attention and leaving them much space to create their own imagination.
In this poem Frost traced out a snowy scene and succeeded making his own thinking and emotion clear-cut and achieved the expected aesthetic value. This essay states the brief accounts of the author and the poem, and tries to analyze stylistic features of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from some different perspectives.
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A Stylistic Analysis of Robert Frost’s
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Chapter1 Introduction
1.1 Brief account of the author
Robert Lee Frost was one of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize，and was "the only poet ever invited to read one of his poems at a pr
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esidential inauguration" .Although he was very famous，he always created his image as a simple New England farmer who words were very plain and homely. His poems，like himlf，are also very simple and straight that people can understand their literal meanings quite easily. Some poems are even like the monologues or dialogues of the farmers .But his poems are only" deceptively simple". Most of them bear profound philosophical meanings of life. He is a 20th-century poet，but the forms of his poems are old ones，and people apprai his poems as "new wine in old bottles". However，the old bottles are quite important for us to understand his poems and to get the deep meanings contained in the forms .
1.2 Brief account of the poem
The author ud beautiful language, cantabile rhyme and flowing rhythm in this poem and traced out a mysterious snowy scene in winter of England. The images in the poem can be divided into two kinds: visual images and auditory images. They correspond to the nsory feelings of the author as well as the readers, and therefore create vividness. In t
he poem, the author stands between the nature and the human society watching the woods covered by the snow. There is no hous or villages even his hor does not know whether his owner should rest at such a dark and cold place. However, the boundless charm of the woods makes him get rid of his fear and enjoy the woods in easy wind and downy flake. Finally the attractive woods makes the author calm down and recollect his promi determining to fulfill his responsibility.
1.3 Major theme of the poem
海贼王之波涛汹涌As a traveler, the author stands between the woods and people facing the great attraction from the two worlds. On one hand, he is tempted strongly by the mystery of the woods, on the other hand, he also hope that he can reject this kind of ductive temptation and go back to the reality so that he could be able to carry out hi promi. Here the theme may be the necessity to face the responsibilities and duties inherent in adult instead of escaping the pressure and sadness of the circumstance and the weight of responsibilities.
Since it is full of symbolic constructs, it is thought- provoking, and the readers can get great fun in developing the subtext .Now let's have a clo reading of one of Frost's most widely anthologized poems" Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"，and to e what the stylistic features in this poem try to tell us.
Chapter2 stylistic features
2.1 sound features
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Throughout the poem we are being drawn into silence and sleep，yet always with the slightest contrary pull of having to go on. The very tentative tone of the opening line lets us into the mood without our quite nsing where it will lead，just as the ordinariness of 'though' at the end of the cond line assures us that we are in this world .But by repeating the 'o' sound，'though' also starts the ries of rhymes that will soon get the better of traveler and reader .The impression of aloneness in the first two lines prepares for concentration on eing the strange process not of snow falling，but of woods 'filling up.' The intimacy of
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reminds us again of the everyday man and his life back home，but 'queer' leads to an even lonelier scene，a kind of northern nowhere connected with the strangeness of the winter solstice,
