Contemplating Suicide Analyzing Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening What is poetry? Poetry is a lyrical way of expressing emotion. It is language charged with meaning and framed to be heard for contemplation. Poetry is a pleasant sounding work; the emotions that drive the words fill poetry with deep meaning. The reader must analyze every word to get the full meaning of a poem. An excellent example of deeper meaning within …showed first 75 words of 805 total…

…showed last 75 words of 805 total…Understanding that the man in the poem is contemplating suicide opens the poem up to be much more than four trivial stanzas. It becomes a picture of how someone who might be contemplating suicide thinks and feels. Searching for the complete understanding of a poem is like a journey for the reader; the destination is reached when the author’s true meaning is successfully conveyed. Works Cited Guth, Rico. Discovering Literature. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996.