Walking By Woods on a Snowy Evening

I don't know much about copyright laws so someone should let me know if I am violating any!

The title of my blog comes from the following poem, which I came to like after using it for a composition exercise in my music theory lessons.

Walking By Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

These woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to kepp,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Isn't it lovely?
Having realised this would be a good name for my blog I also came to a few other realisations about the name; it could reflect more than just half the title of a nice poem. In reflection of the phrase 'walking by woods' I found that it could refer to a kind of fantastical wander through the woods of many of the novels I have read and loved (thinking The Lord of the Rings, The Axis Trilogy, to name a few). It could also refer to the mystical woods of my thoughts and dreams. I'm not trying to sound too philosophical but what can I say. All those novels do affect your imagination from time to time.

So anyway, that about wraps up the naming business. I was also going to call it 'dream within a dream' which was unfortunately taken (the name of a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe).

I must also thank my sister Kate for leaving these poems on her bedroom door for me to discover so easily. She has a much more interesting blog than me.

Bye for now.