I’m back again at last. Here is a new fascinating post, a poem and my comment on it, that can help you overcome your difficult moments in life.
Enjoy it.
After reading this poem for the first time, you think that all the four stanzas merely describe a man stopping near a wood to watch a familiar landscape around him while it is snowing. However, after a second and more profound reading, we realize that all the elements of the poem have got symbolic values that, once understood, reveal a tough aspect of human life.
As in the most famous soliloquy of English literature, i.e. Hamlet’s one, human beings often stop and wonder whether it is better to stop and “suffer” the painful darts of life passively or face them until the final sleep.
The woods and their owner represent God and what he created. The man on the horse could be any human being who is living a difficult moment in life. He stops and, unable to go on, starts wishing to surrender and accepts the sad events of life without reacting. The snowflakes slowly falling around him are like the grains of sand falling in an hourglass and make us think of time passing by. The horse is the rational element that awakes the man so that he can understand that it is useless stopping before reaching a goal, the farmhouse in the poem.
In the final stanza the man is finally conscious and aware: he realizes that even if it would be easier to give up fighting for life, thus living carelessly, it is always better to go on and try to achieve an aim until the very last day of life because living is always worthwhile .
