Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost · first published 1969
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If - Rudyard Kipling https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if--- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woo... Emily Dickinson! Here is one I’m Nobody! Who are you? I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite poems?” ↗Similarly lost in meaning is Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" which is a beautiful poem, but many people don't see the suicidal undertone. I've had it memorized for years and only just learned about this.
on “The Most Misread Poem in America” ↗I'm a Frost fan as well. My favorite is Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. 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…
on “Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?” ↗>Skip Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening No way, that's one of my favorites. I don't want to let pretension keep me from liking what I like.
on “Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?” ↗The Frog and the Nightingale (Vikram Seth) - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-frog-and-the-nightingale... Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woo... Mending Wall - Robert Frost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall The Second Coming - W.B.Yeats http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite poems?” ↗My weirdest Frost experience has been "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." My child received the gift of a lavishly illustrated picture book with the verse printed in it. The poem is so desolate, but as far as I could tell, neither the illustrator, nor the publisher, nor…
on “America's Great Poet of Darkness: A Reconsideration of Robert Frost at 150” ↗…lifelong love of poetry. I spend more time on translations of older Chinese poetry these days (I highly recommend Red Pine's translation of Wei Ying-wu's In Such Hard Times), but I'll always remember Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
on “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)” ↗