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Name: - chintavan bhungani
Course: - M.A. English
Semester: - 3
Batch: - 2015-2017
Enrolment no: - PG15101006
Submitted to: - Smt. S.B.Gardi Dept. of English MKBU
Email id: - cnbhungani7484@gmail.com
Paper no: - 10 the american literature
Topic: - The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep, discuss the philosophical meaning of the poem.
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Introduction:-
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. The present poem is one of best known poems –it reminded and inspired Nehru –service of humanity and countrymen.
Robert Frost (1874-1963), a poet of rare Pulitzer-Prize fame, who was hailed though belatedly in 1961, by President John F. Kennedy as “an unofficial poet Laureate of America”, is, the most widely read American poet in his own country as well as abroad. Like the English Romantic poet, Wordsworth, Frost was a poet of Nature, man and Human Life, but unlike Wordsworth Frost’s treatment of nature, man and human life was altogether different from the treatment of the pioneer of the English romantic tradition. It is the difference between the two that establishes Frost as a unique poet of American experience.
Frost has been called “A Poet of Nature”, “Poet of Paradoxes”, “Poet of Darkness”, “Poet of Romanticism”, “Poet of Tensions”, “Poet of Barriers”, “Poet of Contraries”, and above all “a modern poet”.
The present poem of Robert frost can be considered as it poem of karma yoga or a person’s sense of duty. No doubt the literally meaning of this poem is very simple but the applied meaning is significant. Robert frost himself at a particular stage in life worked as a farmer and it has been said that he could not gate expected price of the products which he had gone to sell in the market. While coming back in a wave of disbacked the present poem was composed.
The poet knows whose woods they are and the owner lives in the village. He want mind if the poet stops that for some time to enjoy the beauty of that place but when he makes a pose there his horse considers it strange, uneven because there is no farm house of is stable. The Morse realizes that it is and uneven pose because that is the darkest evening of the year and the lake is also frozen the same horse gives a shake to its harness bee to remind the poet that their pose there is an uneven. The only other sound except of that bee is the whistling sound because of blowing of the wind.
The poet is reminded that the woods have got enough beauty they are lovely, deep and dark but the poet has got many promises to keep before I sleep there he has miles to go on and on.
The implied meaning of the poem is more appealing and convincing. The poet knows whose woods they are but that person is not and individual that owner is god almighty who watches everything. The presence of horse also demands and interpretation it is not merely in this poem as an animal but the inner craving of an individual which does not allow that person to be in the company of nature. The horses reminding to the poet is a sign of how man is occupied with material life which does not allow man to be with nature.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
The last stanza of the poem in which the poet describes the woods are lovely dark and deep has a note of Disperse it. The word “dark” suggest poets dispatch or pessimism because he could not gate expected price of his agricultural products. The sleep is not a common sleep in the last two lines of the poem. Its stands for death and here this poem becomes a poem of karma yoga. A man may a came across beautiful sights, places and individuals but man must not make that the final stage, man should go on and on doing is beauties and karmas. The day man stops performing his duty and karma. It is a day of his death though that person may leave biologically. The lesson of the poem is importance of karma in life and duty is more important than beauty.
· Rhyme scheme of this poem :- a-a-b-a
· Here poem shows a simple meaning but its dark meaning is about life, death, sorrow and journey. The simple lyric can be read/interpreted in various other ways also. It reminds him that his journey has a purpose and ‘miles to go before’ he escapes into dreamy world of snowy woods.
It is not merely what poet once experience on one evening. it expresses the conflict which everyone has felt, between the demands of practical life with its obligations to others and the poignant desire to escape into land of daydream/enjoyment. No overt symbolism. But this experience of poet symbolizes experiences common to all. One has to fulfill certain duties; there are promises to be fulfilled before one ‘sleep’.
The duties may of this world or the other world. Promises may be those which are made to fellow being or to the supreme being. Snow woods and beautiful evening is temptation-it may lead to loss of consciousness. This loss of consciousness leads to normal death.
Ø Conclusion:-
At the end we can say that ‘sleep’ is ‘reward’ one receives. ‘Sleep’ can also to read to as ‘Nirvana’- Moksha. The ultimate release from the journey of life –death –life. But still the soul has ‘miles to go before it achieves this blissful state of sleep. Thus, the life is a journey; soul is mounted on the horse/ horse carriage. The traveler is tempted to deviate from his path. The worldly pleasure attract soul .but the consciousness (bell) wakes or guards him and reminds him of his journey and promises –but I have promises to keep/and miles to go before I sleep. . Frost’s hired man is a victim of the impact of industrialization on contemporary America. He is exploited by others not only in the cities but even in the countryside.
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