STOPPING BY THE WOOD ON THE SNOWY EVENING. Robert Frost’s well-known poem, “Stopping by The Wood on the Snowy Evening”. Frost was born in San Francisco, where he spent his first eleven years. After the death of his father, a journalist, he moved with his mother and sister to Western Massachusetts near to his paternal grandparents. He wrote his first poem while a student at Lawrence High School, from which he graduated as co-valedictorian …showed first 75 words of 1411 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1411 total…on the darkest evening of the year. The poet is powerfully drawn to these woods and like Hans Castorp in the “Snow” Chapter of Mann’s Magic Mountain : wants to lie down and let the snow cover and bury him. The third quatrain, with its drowsy, dream like line: “Of easy wind and downy flake”, opposes the horse instinctive urge for home with the man’s subconscious desire for death in the dark, snowy woods.