Clarissa Jimenez & Yesenia Sanchez

• In 1917, Frost was deeply grieved be the death of a close friend, Edward Thomas, who was killed during a battle in WW1.

• In 1918, Frost got a severe case of influenza.

• In 1920, Frost’s sister Jeanie is committed into a mental hospital.

• Published in New Hampshire in 1923.

BACKGROUND

Always the same, when on a fated nightAt last the gathered snow lets down as whiteAs may be in dark woods, and with a songIt shall not make again all winter longOf hissing on the yet uncovered ground,I almost stumble looking up and round,As one who overtaken by the endGives up his errand, and lets death descendUpon him where he is, with nothing doneTo evil, no important triumph won,More than if life had never been begun.

Yet all the precedent is on my side:I know that winter death has never triedThe earth but it has failed: the snow may heapIn long storms an undrifted four feet deepAs measured again maple, birch, and oak,It cannot check the peeper's silver croak;And I shall see the snow all go down hillIn water of a slender April rillThat flashes tail through last year's withered brakeAnd dead weeds, like a disappearing snake.Nothing will be left white but here a birch,And there a clump of houses with a church.

THE ONSET

When first glance at the title we interpreted that it was going to be about nature

mainly a sunset.

After analyzing the poem we decided that it really means the beginning of unpleasant

times.

Predictions Before Reading The Poem

Meaning We Got After Reading The Poem

TITLE

It is a winter night. It is snowing and taking place in the woods. He is walking around, stumbling. The speaker is sad. Begins to talk about the future and says the snow will pile up. The snow will soon leave and the houses will be seen again.

PARAPHRASE

Stanza One•AABBCCDDEEF

Stanza Two•AABBCCDDEEFF (More complete because he was more accepting at the time.)

The rhyme scheme in the poem is consistent. It keeps the mood the same.

RHYME SCHEME

Symbolism:•Line 13- Winter symbolizes death and grief.Stanza:•Written in 2 stanzas to show that in the first stanza is when winter arrives and the second is to show when winter leaves.•The first stanza is written in past tense and the second stanza is written in future tense.Conflict:•Man vs. nature (a person cannot stop winter from coming)Allusion:•Lines 6-8- God (He’s running from God)•Lines 5 “Satanic hiss” (Because Satan hisses)Diction:•Line 5 & 6- Frost uses “I” to show that he is taking responsibility.•Line 8- He wants to die.Rhyme Scheme•AABBCCDDEEF•AABBCCDDEEFF (More complete because he was more accepting at the time.)

CONNOTATIONS

Onomatopoeia•Line 5- The word “hiss” makes the sound that the would is.

Elegy•Expresses lament, grief or sorrow; it is often over a dead one.

Simile•Lines 19 & 21- Compares the water of a rill to a disappearing snake.

Imagery:•Lines 14 & 15- Showing the snow•Line 23- A few houses by a church•Lines 2 & 3- Showing that the snow is white and the woods are dark.

Hyperbole•Lines 14 & 15- He was exact on how deep it was.

CONTINUE

• Bitter• Depressed• Detached• Gloomy

• Hopeless• Melancholy• Miserable• Serious

• Depressed• Drained• Dreary • Gloomy

• Hopeless• Lonely• Painful

Tone Mood

ATTITUDE

He beginning of the poem it starts off melancholy because he is thinking of the past. When entering the second stanza it

becomes depressed because he now realizes that he has to accept the reality of situation.

SHIFT

The theme of the poem is that when tough times come into our lives it will soon pass over time. But we just have

to accept it as it is.

THEME

In the first stanza it talks about God and then in the second stanza it talks about Satan. They use

“I” to give the speaker responsibility of being condemned by Satan. The speaker feels that the

world is against him.

CRITICISM #1

The poem has two conflicts man vs. nature. There is a cycle in nature. In stanza one it is literary, mythological and

religious. It is a historical present tense which means it has always happen in the past. While stanza two is about restitution or redemption and is entirely future tense.

CRITICISM #2

Fin