rhetorical analysis

Natalie Lozano

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

In Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening". This article was composed pretty well but was weak in his defense of his argument. They had two people debate on what the article was talking about and then another person saying it was him admiring nature. Frost stayed on topic but at the same time he seem confused too, because he did not realize what he was writing about until he further looked into it to get a better sense of what was going on. As Frost is writing his article, he goes into detail about the types of writing devices used to construct this story and he made it his thesis. In the first paragraph he explains how the author of the poem didn’t use punctuation. The second paragraph talked about how he resurfaces in the last quatrain in the rhyme scheme DDDD. The third paragraph was about how he couldn’t make up his mind on whether he wanted iambic feet or pyrrhic feet throughout the article.  It seems as though he was very careful when writing this essay. Like, he didn’t want to do anything to big but played it safe.

            The article, in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" it felt like it had flow to it and it was easy to read, easy to follow but didn’t really catch my attention nothing that made me want to keep reading. I didn’t get how he didn’t know what he was talking about most of the time. I have never seen that in writing so it was bizarre for me to read. At the beginning it looked as though he had a plan of what he was going to write about but slowly it changed into something else. How could someone get looking at nature and see it as suicide? It was weird for me to see how it developed into something completely different.

           This article was a discussion on whether the man was thinking of committing suicide or merely looking out on nature. From what I have just read it seems like the author is still indecisive about which side he is going to reflect and he is just mediating or waiting for someone to give him more information or insight of what is happening in the story. Reading this article made me think off whether my opinion was with suicide or looking out over nature. Since he did not chose which side he was actually on it didn’t help him with his argument, honestly, he didn’t have an argument or an opinion to write this article.

           I think that if Frost had chosen a side he would have been able to back it up with facts and good analysis, otherwise he was giving facts to both side which doesn’t help what he was trying to accomplish. The way he set up his article was good but could have been way better instead of staying on a medial topic and staying there.