Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is one of the most widely read and critically discussed poems in modern American literature. At first sight, the poem appears remarkably simple. A traveller pauses with his horse beside a snow-covered wood on a winter evening, watches the snow fall for a few moments, and then remembers that he must continue his journey because he has obligations to fulfil. Beneath this apparently uncomplicated situation, however, Frost develops a meditation on ...