Question 7 revised

7.   What aspects of the journey are being emphasised?

The poem emphasises two aspects of the journey: unusual journey and an unseen journey. In the first stanza, the private journey begins with nobody being around to see Frost “stop to watch his woods fill up with snow”. Frost then explains in stanza two that this is his time because the “horse must think it queer to stop without the farmhouse near.” The journey is unusual because there is nobody around, like the bourse would think. Frost has time to pause in the woods and not have to worry about what others will think of him. Stanza three continues on from stanza two, about the horse wondering why Frost has decided to stop here, when there is nobody to talk to. The snow is not heavy because “of easy wind and downy flake”. The final stanza includes the unusual journey as Frost describes the woods as “lovely, dark and deep”. The solitude journey comes to an end because Frost “have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep”.