Death in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Essays -- Stopping Woods

forfeitping by Woods on a white Evening - A Stop for Death Everyone feels burdened by life at some point. Everyone wishes they could mediocre close their eyes and make all the problems and struggles of life disappear. Some deliberate death as a release from the chains and ropes with which the trials and tribulations of life guard the human race. Death is a powerful theme in literature, symbolized in a plethora of ways. In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve Robert Frost uses subtle imagery, symbolism, rhythm and verse line to invoke the yearning for death that the weary traveler of life feels. When the loudspeaker in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve pauses for a moments rest, he does not do so on a simple evening, but on the darkest evening of the year, the wintertime solstice (474). The winter solstice is the day marking the beginning of winter, when the sun is the sky for the shortest time, and the night is longest. Night, with its tail and shadows, is a classic symbol of d eath. On the winter solstice, Death advise be considered his strongest, for his time, the night, is the longest i...