Stopping by Woods on the Snowy
Evening by Robert Frost
The
present poem is deep philosophical and one of the most celebrated poems of Frost.
The first prime minister of the Independent India, Nehru was so much influenced
and impressed with the message of this poem that he used to kept this poem on
his table beneath the glass.
The poem is simple but the message that
it conveys to the readers is deep philosophical and significant about life. The
subject matter of the poem is simple , poet goes to a dark, deep, lovely forest
on his horseback. It is very beautiful place where poet is tempted to stay and
pass the night in the forest but suddenly his horse shakes its head to ring the
bells which are tied to its harshness. Here, horse represents the voice of
poet’s soul that ask him if he mistaken by decide to stay in the forest. Poet
reminds that,
“The Woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have many promises to keep
And miles to
go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.”
Here, sleep
symbolize ultimate death but poet finally realizes that there are so many
responsibilities and works to be done by him before he dies. So, he can’t stay
there but continue his journey. Poem is about the internal dilemma of the between love for beauty and sense of duty.
Poet chose the sense of duty and gives
the final message that sense of duty (karmas) in life is more important than
tempting beauty, no tempting beauty should ever prove to be a hindrance on the
path of duty. Poem is also speak similar to Indian Philosophy of Karmas that doing your Karmas and don’t worry about the results.
In our life, many times it happens with
us that we are tempted by many things in our life like money, success, beauty
& love but we can’t stay/stop there forever, we should continue our journey
to reach at the goal or the final destination of life by performing various
works, duties / responsibilities till the end of our life.
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