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…showed last 75 words of 457 total…the same lines might mean to some that our subject, engrossed in the view of snow falling in the woods by the lake, becomes aware that he must move on as he has appointments to keep. Certainly there is enough evidence in the poem to support both views, and possibly countless other interpretations. Every person who reads a poem can take away something wholly personal. This fact is precisely what gives poems their transcendent quality.