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Unit 6: Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
6.1 An Overview
6.2 Use in Eulogies

6.3 In Popular Culture
6.4 Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
6.5 Commentary

6.6 Setting of the Poem
6.7 Summary
6.8 Keywords
6.9 Review Questions

6.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit, you will be able to:
• Know about Robert Frost;

• Understand the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

Introduction

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New England at the
age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school
years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later
at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree.

Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler,
and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem, “My Butterfly,” was published
on November 8, 1894, in the New York newspaper The Independent.
In 1895, Frost married Elinor Miriam White, who became a major inspiration in his poetry
until her death in 1938. The couple moved to England in 1912, after their New Hampshire
farm failed, and it was abroad that Frost met and was influenced by such contemporary
British poets as Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. While in England, Frost
also established a friendship with the poet Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish
his work.
By the time Frost returned to the United States in 1915, he had published two full-length
collections, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, and his reputation was established. By the

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