poems. "He himself always offered it as the prime example of his commitment to convention." (Gerber p. 85) "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the pressure of distant responsibilities, referred to in abstract terms, prevents the speaker from lingering to contemplate a sensuously appealing landscape near at hand. In his longing for the darkness and sleep represented by the "lovely" woods swept by "easy wind and downy flake," he seems to look forward to the final rest that succeeds all engagements with reality." (Gerber p.76) " Whose woods these are I think I know" suggests that is a poem concerned with ownership and does not choose to care even about owning himself. "The terrifying lightness of sight and sound leads the speaker to contemplate the woods as "lovely, dark, and deep," a desire to lose himself in this self-annihilating scene." (Bloom p.64) 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.This rejects nature's impersonal plea in favor of purpose, the last verse refuses to imply whatever such purpose is self produced and determined...
