Death in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Essays -- Stopping Woods

fish filet by timberland on a snow-white Evening - A Stop for Death Everyone feels burdened by lifetime at some point. Everyone wishes they could just close their eyes and make solely the problems and struggles of life disappear. Some see death as a sac from the chains and ropes with which the trials and tribulations of life bind the human race. Death is a powerful theme in literature, symbolized in a plethora of ways. In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve Robert rime uses subtle imagery, symbolism, rhythm and rhyme to invoke the yearning for death that the break traveler of life feels. When the speaker in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve pauses for a moments rest, he does not do so on a simple evening, but on the darkest evening of the year, the winter solstice (474). The winter solstice is the day marking the beginning of winter, when the lie is the sky for the shortest time, and the night is longest. Night, with its darkness and shadows, is a classic symbol of death. On the winter solstice, Death can be considered his strongest, for his time, the night, is the longest i...