Psychological Conflict in Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

This research article aims at exploring the psychological conflict in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The poet, in the poem, depicts an aesthetic diversion and admiration of natural beauty against the messy existence of a man. Tossed between the temptations the world offers to a man and his desire to pursue his chosen path of commitments; the speaker seeks for the meaning of life. Although the universal enigmatic question of indecisiveness is presented in the poem through a series of symbols, imagery, metaphor, personification and carefully chosen words and dictions, the speaker consequently overcomes the inner conflict of his mind and resolves to carry on performing his responsibility to continue his journey of life until his death. So, employing a qualitative method, the researchers examine how deftly the poet has delineated psychological conflict in the poem.