Hmm …

… Beyond the Lines: Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

This is  a very interesting, well-written piece. I agree with much of it, but my understanding of Frost’s poems is decades old. I understand the first stanza is that the speaker is in God’s country — in a woods without a farmhouse near. Now that first stanza does say that the speaker thinks he know whose woods these are — “his house is in the village though.” Might that be God’s house — the church? My guess is the speaker has been thinking of responsibilities he is obligated to meet. And what he realizes is that he must go on and meet them