로버트 프로스트의 시: ‘숲’의 양면성에 대한 연구

An Analysis of Both Sides of Woods in Robert Frost’s poetry

The critics think Robert Frost uses both sides of the meaning of “woods” in his poems. From my point of view, both sides represent both the positive worlds and negative worlds. Frost realized the comprehensive meanings through his life as a farmer in the rural woods. In “Dust of Snow,” he sometimes maintained harmony with the woods and was cured mentally through the dropping of snow dust. The poem “The Road Not Taken” can be read against a literary meaning that might be called “The Choice of the Roads.” It is suggested in his decision to make his two roads not very different from one another. The two roads could link his unsettled life through the symbol of travel. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the speaker stops and was seduced by the woods on the “darkest of the year” and watched them “fill up with snow.” Because the poet is reminded of the “promises” before he sleeps, he tries to escape from the woods which are “lovely” as well as “dark and deep.” In conclusion, I think the woods in his poems contain not only an affirmative but also a negative side to describe man’s life in the woods. (Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)