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Life: A Long And Winding Road Through out life, we encounter many obstacles and joys in our “journey’ towards death. Some people rush through their lives and others actually stop to take in their surroundings and enjoy life. In Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”, the two poets represent people in life as a traveler on his way to some unknown destination. In Frost’s poem, the traveler wishes he could stop for a while to just observe the peacefulness and tranquility of the woods (life). Longfellow’s poem discusses how we all go through life and many different situations, but the sea (life) still ebbs and flows. These two poems, although written in different eras, have striking similarities and differences. The settings in such poems as “The Tide Rises The Tide Falls” and Stopping By Woods….” are very vital to the message