Poetry+Quiz

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Paragraph By reading the poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", readers can get an idea of who the flat and round characters are. The owner of the woods, the speaker, the horse - they are all characters in the poem. The owner of the woods, who lives in the village as everybody would do during the "darkest night of the day," is a flat character. The only detail that the poem provides about his is that he lives in the village, so readers do not get a full idea of what he kind of character he is (how old he is, what kind of personality, how does he feel) The horse's character is a little rounder than that of the owner of the woods, but it is not as round as the character of the speaker. There are several descriptions of the horse in the poem: "little horse", "he gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake." From this readers can tell that the horse is rather young and that he is curious, because he wants to know about what his master did. The speaker is a round character because there are details provided about him from his speech. From the last three lines of the poem, "But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep," readers can tell that he is someone who remains faithful because he tries to keep promises and probably lives somewhere far from the woods. Thus, readers can see that there are various types of characters in "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening."