Variations on the Word Sleep is more than just a love poem. It is a poem that seeks to enter the conscious and the subconscious by exploring one person’s earnest desire to know another person at the very depths of his soul.
Q. When did Robert Frost write his first poem?
1894
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- Q. When did Robert Frost write his first poem?
- Q. What was the first poem that Robert Frost had published in 1894?
- Q. What poem made Robert Frost Famous?
- Q. What is the significance of the word sleep in the final two lines?
- Q. Which word in above lines mean opposite to after?
- Q. Why does the poet Consider the woods lovely dark and deep?
- Q. Why did the use the phrase dark and deep?
- Q. Why did the persona use the phrase dark and deep?
- Q. What does the yellow wood symbolize?
Q. What was the first poem that Robert Frost had published in 1894?
My Butterfly: An Elegy
Q. What poem made Robert Frost Famous?
Robert Frost’s most famous poems included “The Gift Outright,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Birches,” “Mending Wall,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
Q. What is the significance of the word sleep in the final two lines?
The word sleep here symbolises the final sleep – death. The last two lines – in fact, the entire “d, d, d, d” rhyme scheme of the closing stanza – is Frost’s brilliant resolution to the rhyme scheme problem he created for himself in the previous stanzas.
Q. Which word in above lines mean opposite to after?
before
Q. Why does the poet Consider the woods lovely dark and deep?
When taken at a symbolic level, the woods are opposed to the promises which the poet must keep. Woods represent sensuous enjoyment (lovely), the darkness of ignorance (dark) as well as the dark inner self of man (deep). Poet attaches the moral tag that in life one must do one’s duty and carry out one’s obligations.
Q. Why did the use the phrase dark and deep?
Answer: The woods are lovely, dark and deep: The woods is the metaphor for death. And miles to go before I sleep: Metaphorically the “miles to go” is life and the “sleep” is death. The narrator’s repetition of the final lines also have a darker meaning.
Q. Why did the persona use the phrase dark and deep?
Answer. In his poem “Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening”, Robert Frost has used the phrase ‘the darkest evening of the year’ in the second stanza. This is because the poem is set on the winter months. Because during winters the days are shorter while the nights are longer and darker as well.
Q. What does the yellow wood symbolize?
(i) a yellow wood: The yellow woods represents the season of autumn. Autumn also stands for old age and inactivity. The poet could be symbolically talking about his later stages of life when he finds it hard to take a decision.
