1. Narrative & Persona
The Poetry of Robert Frost
Chera Fernelius
8th Grade Language Arts

2. Key Terms
Narrative
A story or
account of
events
whether fact
or fiction.

3. Key Terms
 Perspective/Point
of View
The way the
narrative
voice, or
speaker,
views events
in the
narrative.

4. Key Terms
Persona
The person
created by
the author to
tell the story.

5. Key Terms
Speaker
The narrator
of a story or
poem, but not
necessarily
the author.

6. “Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening”
 Emotions
 Imagery
 Events
 Motive
 Described
 Inferred

7. Inference or Evidence?
1. It is the middle of winter.
2. The speaker feels guilty and uncertain about stopping.
3. The speaker has lost his way.
4. At the end of the poem, the speaker leaves the woods
and heads home.
5. The speaker thinks uneasily about his own death.
6. The owner of the woods and the speaker don’t get
along.
7. The speaker admires the snowy woods.

8. Journal Entry
 What might be the circumstances that have
brought the speaker to this spot in the wood?
 What might have compelled him to stop on so cold
and dark a night?
 What might be the speaker’s relationship to the
person whose woods these are?

9. “The Mending Wall”

10. Inference and Evidence Chart
15
Minutes