The horse shakes his harness bells to remind the narrator of what they need to accomplish. This predicts hardship and the horse’s insinuation that they must hurry into civilization. The line shows the danger that stopping by in such a worse environment and weather was unique to the horse.īy picturing the weather and evening time, for the narrator to describe it as dark could mean the clouds and snow-covered the sky, making it dark and hard to navigate. The seventh line shows other reasons that made the narrator thinks his horse found it abnormal to stop by the woods. The horse must have been used to stopping in farmhouses and villages. The lack of civilization within the woods makes the narrator think his horse finds no purpose in the narrator’s stop in the woods. In all the journeys the horse has accompanied the narrator, they have never been contained in the woods. The narrator thinks his horse finds it abnormal that they must stop in the woods. He wants to admire how the woods fill with snow. The line reveals an obsession the narrator has. The narrator calms himself down and stops to hang around.

The narrator shows relief and freedom to trespass in someone’s woods because he won’t be seen.

The narrator gives a clue that there is a village, a civilization. The narrator gives a clue that perhaps, out of all those people living in the nearby village, one of them might be the owner of those woods. The narrator wonders about the owner of these woods, but upon closer look and imagination, he thinks he has an idea of the owner but does know the specific owner. Line one begins with a question that catches the reader’s attention to wonder the same as the narrator.

The darkest evening of the year summary