SAN RAFAEL NATIONAL TRADE SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Caingin, San Rafael, Bulacan

SY. 2017-2018

Submitted by:
Haidee S. Villanueva
STEM
Aristotle

Submitted to:
Ms. Luzviminda M. Ramos
Reading and Writing Skills
Instructor
I. Introduction

A. In Criticizing you can measure how well you have known the paper. The purpose of
writing a critique is to evaluate somebody’s work in order to increase the readers
understanding of it. A critical analysis express the writer’s opinion of a text. It is not
only matter of how to understand the work but also on how to interpret the text within
the work.
B. Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England
before it was published in America, known for his realistic depictions of rural life and
his command of American colloquial speech.
C. Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry. He became one of America’s tremendous public literacy figures, almost an
artistic institution.
In 1960, he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works. On July
22, 1961, frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.
D. Robert Frost’s personal life was full of sorrow and loss. In 1885 when he was 11, his
father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars. Frost’s mother
died of cancer in 1900. In 1920, he had to commit his younger sister Jeanne to a
Mental Hospital, where she died nine years later.
E. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a poem written in 1922 by Robert
Frost, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire Volume. Imagery, personification
and repetition are notable in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it
“my best bid for remembrance.”
I. Development

F. Whose woods these are I think I know.The speaker only thinks who owns the wood.
G. His house is in the village though. The speaker knows that the owner of the woods is
living in the village.
H. He will not see me stopping here. The owner of the woods will not see him stopping
there.
I. To watch his woods fill up with snow. The speaker watches the woods piling up with
snow.
J. My little horse must think it’s queer. The speaker think that his little horse thought
what was happening was weird.
K. To stop without a farmhouse near. The speaker continues reading the horse’s mind
that the horse have doubt on what will happen.
L. Between the woods and frozen lake. The speakers tells what will happen to them
between the woods and frozen lake.
M. The darkest evening of the year. The speaker describe the night.
N. He gives his harness bells a shake. The speaker moves his harness to know the
reaction of his horse.
O. To ask if there is some mistake. The speaker wants to know the reaction of the horse if
there’s some mistake.
P. The only other sounds the sweep. The speaker tells about that the only sound can
heard is the sweep.
Q. Of easy wind and downy flake. The speaker describe that the sweep is coming from
the wind and falling snow.
R. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. The speaker affirming the peace and haunting
beauty of the snowy woods.
S. But I have promises to keep. The speaker is stating that he has promises that must be
kept.
T. And miles to go before I sleep. The speaker tells that there’s a few miles that he deals
with before take a rest.
U. And miles to go before I sleep. His way home was too far but he already wants to take
a rest.

II. Conclusion

V. The theme of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” reflects Robert Frost’s

perseverance in the face of hardship.
W. Frost structures his poem very interesting. His descriptive language allows you to
picture the events in your own head as if they happened in your own eyes.
X. Everyone feels burdened by life at some point, they could just close their eyes and
make all the struggles and problems disappear. They just let their problems destroy their
life. In part of the poem, Frost felt tired and longing for something. There was a scene
which he described as dark and deep but he continue to stand and grow.
Y. Frost’s speaker is confronted with two choices: He can either forget his problems or he
can follow through his responsibilities and make the most of life. He showed us how this
decision can be but in the end, there will be lovely and great ending in any hardworks.
Z. After I read the poem it concludes that in different points or stages in our life there
comes to us that we tend to think or do something strange just like the first stanza
because critiques tend to give the hidden meaning of the snow, woods and horse.
AA. Therefore, Frost wrote this poem about himself and his journey. He wants to say that
giving up when faced with hardship is not the best solution, we must continue and let as
life flows with the best person we can be.