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Can someone please read my paper and tell me what they think, i would be most appreciative!

The Road Less Traveled
Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening shows the problems and challenges everyone is experiencing in life. Frost accomplishes this by allowing the reader to see how he himself, through this poem, worked through a problem in his life. Even though our lives are full of problems, one cannot stop and wonder what went wrong rather we must push through, this poem helps reach that conclusion.
The dilemma is first given by the speaker. He is passing through woods where he imagines he has passed through before. “Whose woods these are I think I know” (Frost), shows that the speaker has dealt with this situation before. A problem is arising, but although he has regretfully seen this problem, he is handling it in a different way. Instead of postponing and dwelling on his past reoccurring problems, he distinguishes what he must do from his old pattern and goes through. “His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here,” (Frost) this suggests the speaker will not be distraught enough to stop and be filled up with sorrow and the coldness the problem brings to him. This is further shown when he states, “To watch his woods fill up with snow” (Frost). The speaker has now seen a problem that has occurred in his life and is now dealing and fixing the problem through an alternative solution. Instead of waiting and wallowing in the misery of the what this problem has brought in the past to him, he decides to continue, but someone else is also involved in this situation and wants to stop and stare at the problem just like the speaker had done in the past.
Someone else is accompanying the speaker on his journey through the problem woods, his horse. When the speaker does not stop like he has in previous events, the horse think it is off to not stop. Frost personifies the horse though how the speaker reacts to the horse. For example when the horse jingles his bells the speaker reacts, “He gives his harness bells a sake, to ask if there is something wrong” (Frost). The speaker and the horse are both caught in the problem. Considering this is how the horse is another person involved, they stop “between the woods and frozen lake” (Frost). Distracted by what they used to know and where they are heading they stop. They know the woods and have traveled through them once, but the frozen lake a normal occurrence but not a pleasant one. The speaker must choose to either regress or push forward; the horse has no say in the matter anymore. This is “the darkest evening of the year,” (Frost) he has to choose and shake himself to realize that he needs to get through.
As the horse shakes his harness bells, the speaker understands this as a signal to make a wise decision. “The only other sounds the sweep of easy wind and downy flake” (Frost). In the dead of silence right when all if the speakers thoughts are collecting into a pattern for him to succeed in overcoming the problem at hand he realizes he must pull through.
Ultimately the speaker pulls through and out of the situation he left behind and moves forward. Although the problem is never explicitly stated, evidence suggests that he has been in and out of the same situation perhaps a situation on which he felt captive and imprisoned. Life is full of problems and there are people that try to hold progress back and keep things the way they are. This brings reassurance to some people the fact that they are unperturbed with no change and everything they know is there. The speaker might have lost a family member perhaps that is why he was traveling. That relative wanted them to be happy and not to stay sad and cold and have his life fill up with snow but to realize that with out sadness no one recognizes happiness. One must stop and stare at a circumstances long enough to realize how they should better their life. No one ought to have to experience pain or sorry and this is why leaving the situation that is hurting the speaker is the best choice. Because of the promises he has to keep, he has to go miles before his life ends. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep…” (Frost). Frost suggests that we have many more years to live why waste them on sorrow. Our life is so vast and full of choices and based on those choices one makes is how their life is going to go. The choice could be to lament and sorrow or take the situation and turn it around in a positive way. As in this poem, he realizes that the problem hurts but instead of staying in the negative energy, he moves towards the positive and gets out of it.
This poem is based on an everyday life and setting. It is about woods and the snow and how his horse shakes his bell but “subjects toward philosophical generalizations about life and death, survival and responsibility, and nature and humanity” (Roberts). Dealing with situations on a daily basis always run deep through our souls but wisdom must prevail, as the opposite of death is not life but love.