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Robert Frost

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

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Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost (1923)

This is one of Frost’s most famous short poems, and it appeared in New Hampshire, the same poetry collection in which “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” first appeared. Both poems share Frost’s “sense of sound” and focus on the natural world.

An Old Man's Winter Night” by Robert Frost (1916)

This is another of Frost’s winter-themed poems, which would go on to establish a recurring theme in his work. Both poems also share similar imagery of night and darkness.

At the Solstice” by Sean O’Brien (2015)

This contemporary poem celebrates the winter solstice, much like Frost’s work.

Further Literary Resources

This article discusses the controversy and the double meanings surrounding Frost’s use of the Oxford comma in the final lines of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

Robert Frost: Darkness or Light?” by Joshua Rothman (2013)

This article from The New Yorker considers the internal and external life of Frost exactly 50 years after his death.