Comparison of Toadstool Wood and Snowy Wood - 888 Words

‘The toadstool wood’ describes a woodland at twilight. Everything is quiet and dark. Reeves describes the woods as if it is hoary and inactive, I know this because in the poem he says ‘mouldy’. He also says ‘arching sprays of bramble’ which means there would be alot of cultivation as well in the wood. On the other the poem, ‘stopping by Woods on a snowy evening’ has the setting of a man on horse back stopping by the woods for a rest when he is on a long journey. Frost describes these woods as if it is glacial and gloomy, I know this because in the poem he says ‘The darkest evening of the year’. This would also means that it is frightening. There are many common things between these two poems. Firstly both poems scenes are set in the†¦show more content†¦The narrator knows the owner of the woods and knows where he lives but then he says, ‘he will not see me stopping here’. Why will the owner of the woods not see the narrator stopping by? Then the narrator says ‘my little horse must think it queer, to stop without a farmhouse near’, so that means his horse thinks it is very odd, to stop when there is no farmhouse near. So why did the narrator stop then? This is another example of the mystery the poem evokes. The author describes the woods as if it is very scary. I know this because he says ‘the woods are lovely, dark and deep’. I think he was being sarcastic when he said ‘lovely’. ‘Dark and deep’ would mean that the woods had a lack of light and that it was very big and you could get lost in it. In this poem the narrator still has miles to travel in his journey because on the last two lines he says ‘and miles to go before I sleep’. Where is the narrator’s destination? This poem has an AABA rhyme scheme. Frost has added alliteration ‘dark and deep’ and he uses onomatopoeia ‘the only other sound’s the sweep, of easy wind and downy flake.’ Overall this poem created a more powerful sense of mystery than the toadstool wood, which means it has created more suspense. I can see more mystery in this poem other than toadstool wood. I have given examples. Both poems employ striking imagery to create a powerful sense of place. Reeves describes the toadstool wood as an isolated quite place,