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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost. By Emma Valade. https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+frost. Birth & Death Place. Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California He died at 88 years old of sickness on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningBy Robert Frost By Emma Valade https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+frost
Birth & Death Place • Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California • He died at 88 years old of sickness on January 29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts
Family Life • Robert was the first child born in his family • His mother’s name was Isabelle Frost and his father’s name was William Frost Jr. • Isabelle influenced him into literature when she read to him when he was younger • He had a younger sister named Jeanie
Education • He graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts • Attended Dartmouth College and taught at grammar schools • In 1897 he went to Harvard University but left before completing degree requirements due to tuberculosis and the birth of his second child
Relationships • He married Elinor White on December 19, 1895 and had their first child, Elliot, in 1896. • They had six children: a son Elliot, a daughter Lesley, a son Carol, a daughter Irma, a daughter Marjorie, and a daughter Elinor • His wife died in 1938
Style • “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is written in iambic tetrameter. A poem written in iambic tetrameter contains a total of eight syllables in each line • All of his poems are written in this style
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningBy 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.
Poetic Devices Imagery Imagery is a set of mental pictures produced by the memory or imagination Ex 1: "The darkest evening of the year.“ Ex 2: "Of easy wind and downy flake."
Assonance Assonance is the similarity of two or more vowel sounds or the repetition of two or more consonant sounds. Ex: "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."
Personification Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. Ex: "He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake."