This poem is layered with different meanings and it requires the reader to contemplate Frost’s emotions behind the words. Like most of Frost's poems, "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" can be read on several level yet you can ignore them all and still enjoy the surface meaning. On the surface of this poem, it’s talking about a man traveling through the woods with his horse and they stop near someone’s …showed first 75 words of 995 total…

…showed last 75 words of 995 total…to gain the full meaning of a poem. Understanding that the man in the poem was contemplating suicide opens the poem up to be much more than four trivial stanzas. It becomes a picture of how someone who might be contemplating suicide thinks and feels. Searching for the complete understanding of a poem is like a journey for the reader; the destination is reached when the author’s true meaning is successfully conveyed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**