Name: Kristine Joy Dungganon Date Submitted:

Program/Year: LIT121- “The Road Not Taken “Activity

Question To Ponder:

1. Point out the figures of speech used in the poem.

Answer: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of nearby words. To
watch his woods, fill up with snow. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. Personification is
attribution of human characteristics to non-human objects.
2. What details of the surrounding woods does the observer notice?
Answer: The most significant symbol in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
would be the woods. ... Through the descriptions throughout the poem, it becomes clear that
the woods would symbolize the beauty and mystery of the world that most people are just too
busy to appreciate.
3. What quality about the woods does he find especially attractive?
Answer: The woods are ominously tempting and acquire symbolic resonance in the last stanza,
which concludes with one of Frost's often-quoted lines, “miles to go before I sleep.” One
interpretation of this stanza is that the speaker is tempted toward death which he considers
“lovely, dark and deep,” but that he has many.
4. What do you think are the promises he has to keep?
Answer: 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.
5. What is the effect of the repetition of the last two lines?
Answer: The repetition places particular emphasis on these lines and thus suggests a deeper
interpretation than simple rest. The repetition is only there to solidify the stanza with one end
rhyme (i.e. deep, keep, and sleep).