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February 24, 2010 Quiz: Short Story Elements "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Microcosm, allegory, symbols - these are all elements that can be included in a poem or short story. Personally, I found symbols to be most interesting, and will discuss incidental symbols mentioned in the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. An incidental symbol is something that in the story represents something major about the story, but otherwise wouldn't outside that story. Even though the woods would not have any particular meaning in other poems and stories, in this certain poem, the woods are mentioned over and over again, and is used as an element of conflict between the narrator and 'him'. Lines 3 - 4 give proof of how 'he' will not catch the narrator stopping by, which gives me the impression that the narrator probably shouldn't stop by the woods, which belongs to 'him'.