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 BACKGROUND

Always the same, when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as white As may be in dark woods, and with a song It shall not make again all winter long Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground, I almost stumble looking up and round, As one who overtaken by the end Gives up his errand, and lets death descend Upon him where he is, with nothing done To 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 tried The earth but it has failed: the snow may heap In long storms an undrifted four feet deep As measured again maple, birch, and oak, It cannot check the peeper's silver croak; And I shall see the snow all go down hill In water of a slender April rill That flashes tail through last year's withered brake And 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 ToneMood 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

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