Mr. E talks Poetry

What do Robert Frost and Mr. Ellenbecker have in common besides their first names? A love of teaching, football, and the great outdoors, of course! Mr. Ellenbecker’s favorite poem also happens to be Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” because of the peaceful feeling it evokes. “The poem encourages us to take time to stop and smell the roses,” he says.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.