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1. Content • Background of the poem • Form of the poem • Interpretation of the poem • Analysis • Figures of the speech • Poem in Turkish • Questions

2. 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 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. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost

3. Background of the poem • In the June of 1922, in his Stone House It was as if I had a hallucination My best bid for rememberance

4. Form of the poem 4 identically constructed stanzas 8 syllabus in each line 4 lines of each stanza:1st, 2nd, 4th lines rhyme, but 3rd line rhymes for the next stanza- chain rhyme: a-a-b-a schem Iambic tetrameter

5. Interpretation of the poem The speaker: A man who is travelling on hourseback on the darkest evening of the year. 1st person(I, my) General audience

6. The 1st stanza The speaker while travelling on hourseback stops to watch the woods fill up with snow. He thinks the owner of these woods is someone who lives in the village. This owner will not see the speaker stopping on his property

7. The 2nd stanza The speaker continues to gaze into the snowy woods. But, he thinks that his little hourse is puzzled as he stops there. Because there is no a shelter like a farmhouse. Furthermore, environment is lifeless with woods and frozen lake in the darkest evening of the year.

8. The 3rd stanza While the speaker is gazing into the woods, his hourse impatiently shakes the bells of its harness. It is as if they were in communication. The man thinks his horse ask him whether there is a problem. In addition to the horse’s bells, there is the sound of a relaxing wind and soft snow flakes(atmosphere)

9. The 4th stanza The speaker describes the beauty and allure of the woods as “lovely,dark and deep”. Then he reminds himself that he must not remain there. Because he has promises to keep and there is a long journey ahead of him before he can rest for the night.

10. Analysis • On the surface a simple poem • Uniting the contrasts, dilemmas of Frost The Road not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I couldn’t travel both… Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening snow-evening

11. analysis Woods-village 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. -beauty of the nature -repetetion:indecisiveness

12. The speaker: Santa Claus The little horse: His reindeer The darkest night: Christmas eve analysisSanta Claus

13. Theme: The individual caught between nature and civilization. Dilemma whether to give in to the allure of nature, remain in the realm of society Tone: unhappy

14. Figures of the speech • Woods, village, house, horse, snow, downy flake • Bells, sounds • Woods- • Village- • Horse- • Snow • Farmhouse

15. Figures of the speech • Darkest evening • Dark,frozen,evening • Lovely,dark,deep • But I have promises to keep • And miles to go before I sleep

16. Kar Yağarken Ormana bu koruluklar kimin, sanırım biliyorumama köyde duruyor sahibi korulukların;durup seyrettiğimi görmeyecek buradanasıl bütün ormanı kapladığını karın.atım da şaşmış olmalı durmamabir çiftlik bile yokken yakında,arasında donmuş gölle korularınyılın bu en karanlık akşamında.şöyle bir sarsıyor başıyla dizginleriniacaba yanıldım mı diye.bunun dışında duyulan tek sesesen yelle yağan kar ince ince.korular çok güzel, karanlık, derin,ama verilmiş sözüm var benim,ve uyumadan önce millerce yol gideceğim,ve uyumadan önce millerce yol gideceğim.

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