The use of poetry has the ability to easily describe a range of emotions and philosophies. The complex language of poetry allows the writer to bring images to life for the reader. In Robert Frost's writings, he uses a multitude of images that often deal with nature to write about themes of death and grief. Frost's use of imagery to represent death can be seen in his poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." Frost begins the poem with the speaker stating, “He won't see me stopping here to watch his woods fill with snow” (Stopping by Woods 540). This statement could possibly be interpreted as the speaker not wanting to be seen stopping in the woods by God. The man of the village can be considered God because "[his] house is in the village" and Frost's use of house is similar to God's house. Frost uses the imagery of the woods in the previous statement to represent death (Stopping by Woods 540). Therefore, the speaker watching the cold dark woods fill with snow is an image used by Frost to imply that the speaker is contemplating death or suicide and that he knows that God would not like him to think to death as an option. According to John Ogilvie, "The poet is aware that the woods near which he stops belong to someone in the village [...] but at the same time they are his, the poet's woods too, by virtue of what they represent for him in terms of emotion and private meaning” (230). This idea that the woods belong to the poet is an essential idea in Frost's poetry because Frost's life was plagued by death and death is important to him because it played a major role in his life. In “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Frost uses nature imagery to describe the speaker's life. Frost describes...... middle of paper ......ing » Literature: A Portable Anthology. Ed. Janet E Gardener, Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl and Peter Schakel. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2013, 540. Print.---. Literature “The Road Not Taken”: A Portable Anthology. Ed. Janet E Gardener, Beverly Lawn, Jack Ridl and Peter Schakel. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2013, 536. Print.Ogilvie, John T. “From the Woods to the Stars: A Model of Imagery in the Poetry of Robert Frost.” » South Atlantic Quarterly 58 (winter 1959): 230. Rpt. in poetic criticism. Ed. David M. Galens. Flight. 39. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literary criticism online. Internet. April 24, 2014. Stern, Fred. “Robert Frost: He Who Knows the Night.” The world and me, March 2013. Academic OneFile. Internet. April 25, 2014. “The Road Not Taken.” Poetry for students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary Ruby. Flight. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 194-204. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. April 26. 2014.