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Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening Robert Frost is refereed to as modernist. This is another example of a modernism poem. He illustrates how life holds all its possibilities of terror as well as the beauty it holds. It has a sense of realistic ideas and settings. The poem reflects the beautiful scenery in the background. It is also metaphorically interpreting the feelings of loneliness and depression. The woods represent people and society. …

…a part of anything. "The loneliness includes me unawares". The speaker has lost his enthusiasm for life. He can not express his feelings easily because of this feeling of numbness. The speaker may also be denial about being alone. This just goes to show how these themes and ideas would never be brought about in the romantics. These ideas and themes relate to the tragedies and visions people may face however unpretty it may be.