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on Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, on May 3Although many, and I mean many, people believe that this poem is about a man contemplating death, it doesn't have to be. It could simply be that the man was admiring the peace of the woods and realized he had much to do before sleep, so he needed to stop daydreaming and start moving again. I like to think that good poets write poems so that many interpretations can be made about them depending on the individual and where that person is in his/her own life. I do agree that one interpretation is thinking about death but it could be about nature and peace and then coming to reality that life is ahead.
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on My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke, on February 26
Just for clarity
Those lines you refer to can also be seen in different ways. It is all up to interpretation, this is why Roethke made the poem so ambiguous. Line 3 can be seen as he is clinging on tight so that he doesn't fall from his father swinging him around. Same goes for lines 15-16. This poem was made ambiguous so that you couldn't be sure about the exact meaning behind the words. And when looking into the poet's life to find meaning in the poem you should be careful, because poem's are not always or even mostly autobiographical. It may be somewhat related but the poet can freely exaggerate or missrepresent truth as much as he/she wants. -
on My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke, on June 12, 2007After a lot of thought this poem seems to be about nothing and everything all at once. I believe Roethke purposely made this poem ambiguous so that any reader could see whatever he wanted in it and create discussions like this for eternity. Thats the real genius behind this poem.
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on Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, on June 12, 2007However if it was God, wouldn't he see him stopping in the woods? He is all knowing.
