雪夜林边驻留 (向海天 提供）我知道谁是这林子的主人。尽管他的屋子远在村中他也看不见我在此逗留凝视这积满白雪的树林。我的小马想必感到奇怪为何停在树林和冰封的湖边附近既看不到一间农舍又在一年中最黑暗的夜晚它轻轻地摇了一下佩铃探询是否出了什么差错林中毫无回响一片寂静只有微风习习雪花飘落这树林多么可爱幽深但我必须履行我的诺言睡觉前还有许多路要走呵睡觉前还有许多路要赶1 robert frost's poem is actually about a gentleman contemplating suicide.the first image of the blanket of snow,the death shroud,covering everything invokes the reader into participating in the speaker's unnoticed and unseen death.2 the poem adopts iambic tetrameter3 its thyme scheme is :aaba bbcb ccdc dddd4 the poet employs the drawing back the rhyme,i.e in the first stanza the third line is b,while in the second stanza the poem draws back to continue the rhyme b,it gives the poem a tone of hesitation,which shows the poet's deliberate consideration.5 it gives the effect of sighting.the narrator wants to rest but he cannot,and the horse is reminding him to come back.the speaker is tempted toward death which he considers"love,dark and deep"