on,a,snowy,evening

篇一：An analysis of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

班级：309011B

学号：32009011028

姓名：陈晓玲

课程：美国文学选读

日期：May 15th, 2012

An analysis of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'' is a narrative poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost. In this poem, a traveler was attracted by a world of quiet and secluded in the woods on a snowy evening when he was hurried on with his journey. He is tempted to stay longer by the woods to appreciate its mysterious beauty while the harness bells put him back into reality. In order to go home earlier, the traveler continued his journey after his sentimental farewell to the woods.

In the opening stanza, the setting is set on a winter evening in a rural environment. The traveler finds the woods by chance and would like to stay a while. Perhaps he even wants to enter into the woods to feel the atmosphere and appreciate the mystery of beauty. In many cases, life is a journey. So the journey on a snowy evening symbolizes the strenuosity in real life.

The second stanza provides a more clear view of the imagery described at the beginning. It also provides a more definite time and location: the location is remote, the weather has been cold enough to freeze a lake, and the evening is the darkest of the year. As we all know, the dark is usually related to death. The traveler is attracted by the dark indicates that he wants to break away from this mortal life.

In the third stanza, the horse feels that the narrator has mistakenly stopped in the middle of somewhere and gives the harness bell a shake. The traveler is suddenly awakened by the bell. The horse symbolizes his consciousness because it reminds him

of his responsibility by shaking the bells on its harness. His responsibility is to go back to the real world which consists of burdens and pressures from the society.

In the last stanza, the traveler expresses his appreciation on the woods. Actually this is where the narrator really wants to live. He wants to be in a silent place where he cannot be bothered. However, he has to go back to the reality. The author is faced with two choices. On one hand, he is strongly tempted by the beauty of the woods. On the other hand, he also hopes that he can go back to the reality so that he could be able to carry out his promises. Here the theme is that he has to face the responsibilities and duties on him.

篇二：stopping by woods on a snowy evening 雪夜林边驻足翻译及赏析

《雪夜林边驻脚》赏析（辜正坤）

这是一首充满梦幻情调和淡淡忧思的诗歌。弗罗斯特本人曾认为这首诗是他所有创作的诗作中他最喜欢提到的诗。科林斯?布鲁克斯也认为：“在弗罗斯特的诗歌中，这首诗最引人注目。”《雪夜林边驻脚》至少有5组意象连缀起来表达了一种扑朔迷离、忧思惆怅的情调。第1组意象是雪夜。这是寒冷与幽暗二者的结合，象征着诗人心境的凄冷状态。第2组意象是树林，美丽、幽深，象征着诗人的寄托。第3组意象是小马，这是无忧无虑、天真烂漫的生命和力的象征。第4组意象是湖冰，冷的极致，象征着死亡。是诗人本能地感觉到的必不可免的未来的归宿。第5组意象是飞舞的雪花，漫天遍野，有点像是其余4组意象的中介物，弥漫而不执著，可见而不可触。飘然于前，忽焉在后，是扑朔迷离状态的最贴切的写照。这种扑朔迷离状态由于诗中一连串的疑惑而进一步加强：“纳闷”“为何”“仿佛问，出了什么事情？”此诗的诗眼是“可惜我还有别的承诺等待完成（课文译为：可是许诺的事还得去做）”。诗人还有强烈的使命感，他还不愿意就此在雪夜的林边永远驻步，生命的路程远未完结，他“不能安睡，除非再走一程（课文译为：还得走好多里才能安睡）”。死亡这种极其重大的主题在这里被淡化，诗人以一种近乎超然的人生态度来提到它。苟非有“承诺”，他也许会长此沉睡林边！

诗歌的魅力正在于诗人对待生命与死亡的这种近乎超然的心态。来则来，去则去，人生在世，只要尽其所能地完成承诺，则无所遗憾。

不过，弗罗斯特终究还是愿意执著于生命的。他的超然也还不能达到苏轼（1037—1101）的那种超逸隽永、泻化无痕的清高境界：“缺月挂疏桐，/漏断人初静。/谁见幽人独往来？/缥缈孤鸿影。//惊起却回头，/有恨无人省。/拣尽寒枝不肯栖，/寂寞沙洲冷。”苏词的境界亦有类于弗罗斯特诗境界处。此词意境幽冷深曲，影影绰绰，恰如孤鸿之翩然而至，悠然而往。“语意高深！似非吃烟火食人语”。但词旨毕竟有别，此词喻诗人不肯苟合取容、与世俗同流。 （选自《中西诗比较鉴赏与翻译理论》，清华大学出版社2003年版）

弗罗斯特的诗歌多以自然为题材，树林、溪水、鸟禽、马驹，以及朴素的田园生活，

是他喜欢抒写的对象，有人曾称他是一个自然诗人。然而，诗人的对象虽然是自然，但他关注的却是自然之中人的生活。因而，他的诗歌表面上质朴无华，经常是以叙述的口吻，细致呈现生活中的场景和事件，但在保持一种经验的可感性、亲切性之外，他的诗歌往往还包含抽象的意义，在叙述之中引申、提炼出丰富的哲理思考。《雪夜林边驻脚》一诗也突出体现了这种特征。在叙述的层面，它写的是一个很简单的故事：“我”在一个雪夜赶路，途经一片树林，被树林的幽深、寂静吸引，暂时忘记了行程，但最后还是催促自己继续赶路。

这首素朴的小诗，似乎没有使用什么修饰，只是叙述事情的过程，却有一种美妙的表现力，完全传达出了白雪覆盖的树林的神秘、静谧，特别是二、三两节，诗人自己没有出场，而是从小马的视角出发，揣度它内心的好奇：在小马的眼里，主人的驻足有点离奇，这里一片冰雪无处休息。这段心理描写，出人意料却又在情理之中，无形中给这首诗抹上了一层童话的色彩。为了进一步渲染雪夜树林的安静，诗人抓住一个小马的动作，“它把颈上的铃摇了一摇”，当做对世界的提问，世界的回答只是风吹雪片发出的声音。在这几行诗中，清脆的铃声，风雪的絮语，似乎都打破了林中的安静，但正是因为有了这些细微的声响，雪夜才被衬托得静美、无边。在发出由衷的赞叹之后，诗人似乎在自我叮咛，不要沉迷于雪夜的诱惑：“可是许诺的事还得去做。”最后出现两次的“还得走好多里才能安睡”，舒缓低沉，仿佛一个疲倦的旅人，正在睡眼惺忪中低语，

又像一种咒语，安慰了雪夜中迷茫的人心。

那么，这首诗的抽象意义是什么呢？这涉及到对“树林”这个意象的解读。在诗歌中有一种思想的表达方式，是用一个形象去代表某种确定的观念，比如读到“玫瑰”，我们就想到爱情，读到“羔羊”，我们就想到牺牲，读到“暴风雨”，我们就想到革命。这种手法会使抽象的观念有了形象性，但毕竟有一点机械、图解的味道。在弗罗斯特这里，“树林”不是某一种思想的形象符号，它更多的是一种含义不确定的隐喻。在这首诗中，被白雪覆盖的树林虽然幽静、但也是一个神秘的、充满可能性的存在，让疲倦的旅人驻足不前。有人解释它代表了人生的诱惑，还有人说树林是人生的最后归宿──死亡的化身，都有一定的道理，但无论作何理解，在树林面前，一个行路的人要做出自己的选择、自己的判断。诗人还有一首关于“树林”的诗作，名为《未选择的路》。诗中

也写到了一个旅人，他在树林中遇到岔开的两条路，选择不同的路会带来不同的人生。在诗人笔下，“树林”不只是一个现实的场景，也象征了某种人生旅途中的状态，深幽的空间，错杂的路径，暗示了迷惑与不确定，需要人停下脚步，反思自己的方向。但丁《神曲·地狱篇》的开头，也有一个类似的隐喻性场景：诗人在人生的中途，走入一座昏暗的森林，迷失了正确的方向。将这个段落与弗罗斯特的诗歌参照阅读，会更深入地

理解“树林”的深层内涵。

2.这首诗语言虽然十分朴素，没有什么夸张的想像、特殊的词汇，但这并不是说它与一般的口语没有区别，而是说诗人使用的技巧非常自然，没有斧凿的痕迹。重点分析诗中“小马”的形象和心理，以及诗人如何通过动与静、“有声”与“无声”的搭配，

衬托出雪夜无边的静美。

3.注意分析诗歌结尾重复的一句“还得走好多里才能安睡”，在语气上起到了什么

效果。

4.这首诗的意蕴较为深邃，有人说积雪的树林代表了一种诱惑，与赶路代表的“责任”构成矛盾，有人说寂静、神秘的雪夜象征着死亡，诗人克服困倦继续赶路，是对死

亡的抗拒。让学生比较这些说法，并根据阅读感受提出自己的解释。

二、扩展与比较

1.让学生阅读诗人的另一首名作《未选择的路》，以及但丁《神曲·地狱篇》片段，这些诗作都与树林的意象相关，在相互参照中，可以帮助学生更深入地理解“树林”的

含义。

2.在平凡的生活中发现精微的哲理，是诗人的一种重要的能力，向学生介绍冯至的《我们天天走着一条小路》一诗，在风格上它与弗罗斯特的作品很接近，描写了树林中的小路，借此表达了这样一种观念：生活中有多少熟悉的事物等待我们去发现。

我们天天走着一条小路

冯 至

我们天天走着一条熟路

回到我们居住的地方；

但是在这林里面还隐藏

许多小路，又深邃、又生疏。

走一条生的，便有些心慌，

怕越走越远，走入迷途，

但不知不觉从树疏处

忽然望见我们住的地方，

像座新的岛屿呈在天边。

我们的身边有多少事物

向我们要求新的发现：

不要觉得一切都已熟悉，

到死时抚摸自己的发肤

生了疑问：这是谁的身体？

（《冯至全集》第一卷，河北教育出版社1999年版）

第一歌

序曲：浮吉尔救助

但丁

就在我们人生旅程的中途，

我在一座昏暗的森林之中醒悟过来，

因为我在里面迷失了正确的道路。

唉！要说出那是一片如何荒凉、如何崎岖、

如何原始的森林地是多难的一件事呀，

我一想起它心中又会惊惧！

那是多么辛酸，死也不过如此：

可是为了要探讨我在那里发见的善，

我就得叙一叙我看见的其他事情。

篇三：Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 赏析

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

"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 and personification are prominent in the work. In this poem, he describes a little incident happening in a snowy evening. As a traveler, the poet is fascinated by the beautiful scene in the woods. He stops to enjoy it, but his mind urges him to go on, because there is still a long way ahead of him, an unfinished duty waiting for him. This poem is plain in words, but profound in meaning. Since it is full of symbolic constructs, it is thought- provoking, and the readers can get great fun in developing the subtext.

The poem is written in iambic tetrameter. Each verse (save the last) follows an a-a-b-a rhyming scheme, with the following verse's a's rhyming with that verse's b, which is a chain rhyme. Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD.

In the first stanza, the poet leads us to a piece of beautiful woods filled up with snow. We can guess that, in this poem, the poet takes the woods as the eternal life, the bliss, that is to say the Heaven. He is fed up with the routine duties, and wants to rest forever. The woods happens to provide an ideal place.

Then it comes to the snowy evening. “It is the darkest evening of the year.” The snow is cold and the evening dark, all of which indicate that the poet is depressed inside. His heart wants him to stop, but his “little horse” with the inspiring bells, which is actually a symbol of vitality, urges him to go. In the second stanza, the poet uses “frozen lake” to denote death.

In the third stanza, the little horse wonders why the poet stops when he should have go on. Only “the easy wind” and “downy flake” answer it with soft sweep. The poet’s answer is as slight and uncertain as the flakes, because he himself doesn’t know why he stops suddenly in the woods. Toward the end, the poet comes back from the illusion. Though the woods are attractive, he must move on, because he has promise to keep. “The promise” could be an obligation or a goal. One cannot die before fulfilling one’s dream. The poet uses “sleep” to represent death, just as we usually do.

This poem suggests deep thought about death and about life. The strange attraction of death to man is symbolized by the dark woods silently filled up with the coldness of snow. Frost frequently uses the technique of symbolism in his poetry. In this poem, Robert Frost discusses the relation between mortal obligations and the eternal rest. The poem represents a moment of relaxation from the burdensome journey of life, an almost aesthetic enjoyment and appreciation of natural beauty which is wholesome and restorative against the chaotic existence of modern man.

篇四：英诗鉴赏 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

The Interpretation of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in 1923 by Robert Frost in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery and personification are prominent in the work.

Robert Frost is a well-known American pastoral poet. For his achievement, Frost got awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times in his life. Nature and his rural surroundings were for him a source to create, that’s why he made a great many pastoral poems. Frost’s poems show deep appreciation of natural world and sensibility about the human aspirations and realizations. The images like woods, stars, roads, houses, brooks are usually taken from everyday life. Readers always find it is easy to follow the poet into deeper truths about life or the author himself. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is generally regarded as Frost’s masterpiece one which he viewed as his “best bid for remembrance.”

The poet expressed the symbolic meaning by describing nature. In his poems, a theme: of using natural scenery as a symbol to display some feelings; emotions; interests and liking of readers and feelings of the poet can be reflected and the plain of ultra-naturalism and the aesthetic sense of symbolism can be shown by the poet.

The poem is written in iambic tetrameter. It consists of four identically constructed stanzas. The poet employs the drawing back the rhyme, i.e. in the first stanza the third line is b, while in the second stanza the poem draws back to continue the rhyme b. Within the four lines of each stanza, the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme. The third line does not, but it sets up the rhymes for the next stanza. For example, in the third stanza, queer, near, and year all rhyme, but lake rhymes with shake, mistake, and flake in the following stanza. The notable exception to this pattern comes in the final stanza, where the third line rhymes with the previous two and is repeated as the fourth line. It gives the poem a tone of hesitation, which shows the poet's deliberate consideration.

On the surface, this poem is simplicity itself. The speaker is stopping by some woods on a snowy evening. He or she takes in the lovely scene in near-silence, is tempted to stay longer, but acknowledges the pull of obligations and the considerable distance yet to be traveled before he or she can rest for the night. Like the woods it describes, the poem is lovely but entices us with dark depths--of interpretation, in this case.

The first stanza leads us to a piece of beautiful woods filled up with snow. The speaker is captivated by the beauty and stops in such a fascinating pastoral landscape. In the deep mind of him, perhaps the woods means wealth, beauty or other attractions, and he just cannot refuses these allure. He is fed up with

the routine duties, and wants to rest forever. The woods happens to provide an ideal place. The second stanza depicts the surroundings of the woods through the speaker’s little horse’s eye. “The darkest evening of the year” tell us that the snow is cold and the evening dark, all of which indicate that the poet is depressed inside. And now is the darkest time of the speaker’s life, so when he meets the good views in the traveling, he couldn’t help to enjoying the world of fair allure and loneliness. In the third stanza, the little horse wonders why the poet stops when he should have go on. He cannot understand why the speaker—his owner stops there and gazes at the woods. The extreme quietness actually reflects the speaker’s confusing mind. The little horse actually represents another self of speaker and the two speakers have the conversation in heart to decide what he should do. The last stanza is the speaker’s decision and conclusive idea. Finally, the speaker makes his mind to go back to the world with responsibilities. “The promise” could be an obligation or a goal. It represents responsibilities in the human world. The last two repeated lines emphasize the speaker’s determination and he has to keep all the promises and takes the responsibilities. “Sleep” means death, the end of one’s life. The speaker has to deal with chores and promises in the rest of his life.

In this poem, Robert Frost gives the effect of sighting. The narrator wants to rest but he cannot, and the horse is reminding him to come back. And he discusses the relation between mortal obligations and the eternal rest. One leaves no regrets after he dies, as long as one has reached his goal. The speaker is tempted toward death which he considers “love, dark and deep”.

篇五：诗歌 stopping by woods on a snowy evening 中的修辞赏析

诗歌 stopping by woods on a snowy evening 中的修辞赏析

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

---Robert Frost

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 queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

the da(来自:www.sMHaiDa.com 海 达范文网:on,a,snowy,evening)rkness 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.

本诗是Frost 的最重要的代表作，是他所有诗篇中最负盛名的一首。他长久的吸引着读者，更重要的是它令读者惊叹。

本诗的主要内容是讲作者在漆黑的夜晚，站在大雪覆盖的树林旁边，欣赏着树林的无穷魅力。诗人独立伫立于自然与人类世界间，观赏这树林，周围没有房屋和村落，就连马儿也怀疑主人是否应该停在这里休息，然而林子的魅力驱散了心中的恐惧，他不顾一切地停下马，享受着轻柔的微风和飘落大雪中的林子。那迷人的树林最终平息了他的激情，使他在平静的心情中想到自己还有诺言要去实现，并最终摆脱了树林的诱惑。

诗中也运用了几种修辞，如下：

1、 personification 在诗句 he gives his harness bells a shake, to ask if there is some mistake.中诗人用了personification，用了he 和ask , 使马儿赋予了人的色彩。诗人迷恋幽深的树林，而马儿用它的铃声询问主人，这是使诗人能够不被树林所迷惑的一种外界因素。这就更好的说明了马儿的用途，以及它存在的意义。

2、 alliteration 在诗句the woods are lovely, dark and deep 中运用了alliteration 这个修辞。运用alliteration，使全诗的韵味大增，读

起来朗朗上口，既充分说明了树林的特点是黑暗幽深的，这样的树林让诗人为之着迷，又让读者记忆深刻。

3、 repetition 在诗句 and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep 中，诗人运用了repetition。 重复这句话，是为了强调诗人的决定，在被树林迷惑了一刻之后，意识到自己的承诺，便定离开树林，去实现自己的承诺。这种反复也诗歌呈现出了强烈的催眠性节奏，从诗歌上面 easy wind and downy flake 这种柔和的气氛，诗人有可能在柔美的环境中停下脚步，尽管意识到自己的诺言，但是这种重复使得自己的决定无法化为现实，是被这种柔和的环境所渲染。这是另一种理解。

三种修辞使诗歌增加了生动，耐读的特点，同时很好的表达了诗人独自站在幽暗的树林与人类之间，感到了来自两个世界的吸引力，一方面深受神秘的诱惑，但同时又希望自己能摆脱这种诱惑，回到现实中去，以实现自己的诺言。这充分显示了诗人的困惑和彷徨。整首诗歌平静，但诗人内心的疑虑、惆怅和焦灼却通过这几种修辞很好的表现出来。

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