Poetic Techniques
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity, a technique Frost frequently employed to enhance musicality.
What is alliteration?
A key Romantic theme found in Frost's work is the celebration of ________, often depicted as a source of truth or solace.
What is nature or the pastoral?
Frost departs from the more ornate poetic style of Romantics and uses...
Everyday language.
The speaker in the poem pauses by the woods on this specific type of day.
What is "the darkest evening of the year" or the winter solstice?
The narrator of the poem annually meets his neighbor to perform this task.
What is mending the wall?
The use of natural sounding speech patterns and local dialects.
What is colloquial language?
What is the movement that believes in transcendence through connecting with nature?
What is transcendentalism?
Isolation and the loss of certainty in life relates to themes of...
What is nihilism, disillusionment, and alienation?
The "little horse" in the poem symbolises...
What is responsibility, duty, or the pull of the ordinary world?
The narrator questions the necessity of the wall, stating that "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling _____ or walling ____."
What is "in" and "out"?
The use of an object or idea to represent something else, often a broader concept, is a hallmark of Frost's allegorical approach.
What is symbolism?
The opposite of city or urban living.
What is rural living or pastoralism?
Questioning the nature and purpose of the human experience, Frost explored...
What is existentialism?
The repeated line "And miles to go before I sleep" suggests...
What are obligations or the inevitability of death?
The neighbor famously repeats this line twice in the poem, emphasizing his traditional and unchanging view.
What is "Good fences make good neighbours"?
Poems without a fixed rhyme structure.
What is blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)?
In Stopping By Woods, the poet-speaker is in deep _________ (word that means contemplation).
What is introspection?
Especially after WW1, modernists challenged social progress. Specifically, they challenged...
What is modernity, technology, and industrialisation?
The "lovely, dark and deep" woods represent both the beauty of nature and...
What is the allure of death?
The poem explores the tension between the desire for connection and...
What are boundaries, privacy, or separation?
The continuation of a line without punctuation.
What is enjambment?
Romantics believe nature is not just beautiful, it is...
What is sublime?
Modernist poets rejected...
Traditional forms of poetry and romanticism.
This poem's specific rhyme scheme is:
AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDDD
The "something" that "doesn't love a wall" is often interpreted as...
What is nature?