Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening - wikipedia Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening `` Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening '' is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it `` my best bid for remembrance ''. Contents 1 Overview 2 Use in eulogies 3 References 4 External links Overview Frost wrote the poem in June 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont. He had been up the entire night writing the long poem `` New Hampshire '' and had finally finished when he realized morning had come. He went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for `` Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ''. He wrote the new poem `` about the snowy evening and the little horse as if I 'd had a hallucination '' in just `` a few minutes without strain ''. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward Fitzgerald. Each verse ( save the last ) follows an a-a-b-a rhyming scheme, with the following verse 's a 's rhyming with that verse 's b, which is a chain rhyme ( another example is the terza rima used in Dante 's Inferno. ) Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA - BBCB - CCDC - DDDD. The text of the poem describes the thoughts of a lone rider ( the speaker ), pausing at night in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, `` I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep. '' Use in eulogies In the early morning of November 23, 1963, Sid Davis of Westinghouse Broadcasting reported the arrival of President John F. Kennedy 's casket to the White House. As Frost was one of the President 's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from this poem but was overcome with emotion as he signed off. At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son Justin rephrased the last stanza of this poem in his eulogy : `` The woods are lovely, dark and deep. He has kept his promises and earned his sleep. '' References ^ Jump up to : Tuten, Nancy Lewis ; Zubizarreta, John ( 2001 ). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing. p. 347. ISBN 0 - 313 - 29464 - X. Retrieved 9 December 2011. Jump up ^ Frost, Carol. `` Sincerity and Inventions : On Robert Frost ''. Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 04. Jump up ^ Poirier, Richard ( 1977 ). Robert Frost : The Work of Knowing. London : Oxford University Press. p. 181. ISBN 0 - 19 - 502216 - 5. In fact, the woods are not, as the Lathem edition would have it ( with its obtuse emendation of a comma after the second adjective in line 13 ), merely ' lovely, dark, and deep. ' Rather, as Frost in all the editions he supervised intended, they are ' lovely, ( i.e. ) dark and deep ' ; the loveliness thereby partakes of the depth and darkness which make the woods so ominous. Jump up ^ `` My Brush with History - `` We Heard the Shots... '' : Aboard the Press Bus in Dallas 40 Years Ago '' ( PDF ). Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 30. CS1 maint : BOT : original - url status unknown ( link ) Jump up ^ Davis, Sid ; Bennett, Susan ; Trost, Catherine ' Cathy ' ; Rather, Daniel ' Dan ' Irvin Jr ( 2004 ). `` Return To The White House ''. President Kennedy Has Been Shot : Experience The Moment - to - Moment Account of The Four Days That Changed America. Newseum ( illustrated ed. ). Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks. p. 173. ISBN 1 - 4022 - 0317 - 9. Retrieved 10 December 2011. Jump up ^ `` Justin Trudeau 's eulogy ''. On This Day. Toronto, ON, CA : CBC Radio. 3 October 2000. Retrieved 10 December 2011. External links Frost, Robert, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Representative poetry ( online ed. ), University of Toronto. Text of the poem, along with the rhyming pattern. `` Woods '', Frost, Poets, UIUC. Discussion and analysis of the poem. Robert Frost Poems `` Acquainted with the Night '' `` After Apple - Picking '' `` Birches '' `` The Death of the Hired Man '' `` Fire and Ice '' `` The Gift Outright '' `` Mending Wall '' `` Nothing Gold Can Stay '' `` Out, Out - '' `` The Oven Bird '' `` A Question '' `` The Road Not Taken '' `` Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening '' Poetry collections A Boy 's Will North of Boston Mountain Interval New Hampshire West - Running Brook Collected Poems of Robert Frost A Further Range A Witness Tree In the Clearing Plays A Masque of Reason Related Robert Frost Farm, New Hampshire The Frost Place, Home and Museum Robert Frost Farm ( Ripton, Vermont ) Robert Frost Farm ( South Shaftsbury, Vermont ) Robert Frost House, Massachusetts Robert Frost Medal Frostiana ( 1959 choral art ) Robert Frost : A Lover 's Quarrel with the World ( 1963 documentary ) Robert Frost : A Life ( 2000 biography ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_Evening&oldid=808765602 '' Categories : Poetry by Robert Frost 1923 poems Hidden categories : CS1 maint : BOT : original - url status unknown Talk Contents About Wikipedia Brezhoneg فارسی Nederlands 日本 語 ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 5 November 2017, at 00 : 48. 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Question: who wrote the poem stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Answer: Robert Frost