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what did he imagine to do ?
1- going home
2- ambush the red coats
3- go on a hunt
4- rob a bank
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
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.
what comes to your mind ?
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I think he was going home.
He was born in a time and place when hunting was a necessity for most folks, and he farmed at one time in his life, so I imagine he was a hunter.
Ed
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He was lost and his horse thought he was queer.
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"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...."
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
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Where does yella wood come from?
Paul
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Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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I think that one of the things that Mrs. Mefferd was tryihg to get through my thick head back in English class was that a poem truly accomplishes its task when it leaves interpretation open to each person who reads it. Rather than "What is the poet saying?" the question that we were to address was "What do you take away from this poem?".
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I think he was going home.
He was born in a time and place when hunting was a necessity for most folks, and he farmed at one time in his life, so I imagine he was a hunter.
Ed but this poem has been used in JFK eulogy , what is the relation ? P.
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"Home" could be short-term or long-term. In the former, he could be someone, say a country doctor, who must complete a task before returning to the comforts of home. In the latter, perhaps he is speaking of life and its struggles before going "home" to the peace of eternal rest.
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I think he was going home.
He was born in a time and place when hunting was a necessity for most folks, and he farmed at one time in his life, so I imagine he was a hunter.Ed but this poem has been used in JFK eulogy , what is the relation ? P. It can be taken in the context of a long journey, not finished, the rider (writer) alone out in the cold as JFK was. JFK was NOT mainstream Democrat, in fact, he was the antithesis of the burgeoning socialist movement within the Democratic Party. His line "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" was exactly the opposite of what the Dems needed to bring the African American population into the Dem fold and subjugate them. I believe that JFK's plans were what got him killed then LBJ succeeded him and moved the socialist agenda forward. Ed
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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. Wherever he was going, it appears that he was trespassing.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
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He was lost and his horse thought he was queer. Must of been a Texan. Lol.
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Delivery person making a pit stop.
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Too much opium for that guy.
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A man enjoying the quietness and beauty of God's nature!
City folks don't know about it!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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to me this has always been a subversive poem.
or may be he was seeing another woman.
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One of my favorite poems, by my favorite poet. Here are some thoughts about it.
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I'll have what that reviewer is smoking.
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I'll have what that reviewer is smoking. Prolly wouldn't hurt. 
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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. Wherever he was going, it appears that he was trespassing. I remember a time and place when and where such was accepted.
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Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. Wherever he was going, it appears that he was trespassing. I remember a time and place when and where such was accepted. Yeah, when trespassers didn't leave beer bottles, trash and port-a-potties all over the property.
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