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Cory Stevens

AP Lit

Period 3

Dominguez

            The article that I chose to read was Poetic Structure in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening". The main reason I picked this article was because first of all, it was the shortest article I cold find and it was something that seemed interesting because its something that I do not read a lot about. The first thing that really caught my eye was the title of the article "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", it seemed as if it was going to be about someone or something walking in the woods and stopping somewhere along the way because that someone or something noticed something very peculiar. While I continued to read on my thoughts toward the article changed dramatically. This is because in my opinion it should have seemed like there was no possible way for walking through the woods to come out as committing suicide. At first I did not believe this, I thought it was just this persons opinion, which in fact it was but it seemed that he went off in a totally opposite direction of the article. This made me think a lot about the article, it made me think the thought that my parents always told me “ don’t judge a book by its cover.” The reason I thought of this is because if I were to have picked this book out to read I honestly would never have thought of a book about someone committing suicide. It really made me think to myself that maybe the person who did more investigation on this book was as a matter of fact; correct in what he was saying the whole time. When I think about take a walk in the woods during and stopping along the way, I think of very peaceful things. It reminds me of snow falling down on and off the trees and just that amazing sent that the forest gives off. After thinking about it, it didn’t really make sense why someone would want to commit suicide in the middle of the forest, or even have thoughts of committing suicide in the middle of the woods. I guess the author thought since the forest was such a peaceful place that while reading the story no one would at first think of committing suicide they would just think nothing of it except for some random guy stopping in the middle of the forest. After thinking about it for a while it made total sense to me, the author of "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" wanted the readers to have to go into more detail with the story so that we would have to find out what he was really trying g to get at and the readers to understand the first time we read it. I believe, in my opinion after doing something like this and realizing that if I read something I may not understand it all and get a totally different vibe from it I may want to read it again. If I do this in the near future it will help me understand things a lot more and it will help me write my essays a lot better and help me get into better places and do better things in life.