Lesson 5: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

A Ask and answer these questions.

1. Do you enjoy natural beauty like flowers, trees, woods, hills, etc.?
2. Have you ever been to a place where you enjoyed such beauty? If yes, briefly describe it.

B Read the poem and say how the words in each stanza rhyme. For example, in stanza 1 know (line 1) though (line 2) and snow (line 4) rhyme with each other.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

• Robert Frost

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 queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

C Answer the following questions.

1. Where do you think the poet is going? Why is he going there?
2. Why did the poet stop by the woods though it was dark and he was alone?
3. Guess what promise the poet had to keep before he would sleep.
4. Write an imaginary dialogue between the poet and his horse.