Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening vs. The Collar.
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... Tyler Harden Ms. Davis ENGL 102-026 3 April 2003 Stopped by Woods on a Snowy Evening vs. The Collar Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and George Herbert's The Collar can be compared in that both poems emphasize the roles and responsibilities people have in life and the duties they have to fulfill. What separates the two poems is a distinct difference in speaker and situation, which implies a different purpose in each. In Frosts' poem, the speaker talks about how he cannot stay in the woods to think and to admire the beauty of the falling snow. His horse indicates that it is odd for the man to want to stop here, "My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near...To ask if there is some mistake" (673). This show us that it is unusual for the man to stop in the woods for no apparent reason.














