Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was written in 1922 by Robert Frost, and was published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume.He wrote this poem about winter in June, 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Frost had been up the entire night writing the long poem New Hampshire and had finally finished when he realized morning had come. He went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. He wrote the new poem in just a few minutes and later stated that "It was as if I'd had a hallucination."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening was Frost's favorite of his own poems and called it "my best bid for remembrance." Photo courtesy of The Farmers Wife photoblog

 

 

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