>Stopping By Woods on A Snowy Evening< and >The Road Not Taken< by Robert Frost depict a man trying to find his existence in his life through perusing and showing himself as an individual as well as social creature. By using various language styles, Frost shows the struggle of a man trying to find out his existence in the world. Firstly, as an individual creature, he just fulfills himself with personal satisfaction before realizing to do good deed. Secondly, a social creature, he tries to show his existence by choosing his life differently from others.
This article deals with human existence as individual creature in the world based on Robert Frost’s poem >Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening< and >The Road Not Taken<. In doing research, the writer used method of collecting and analyzing data. Observation through document study was used to collect data. While descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The result shows that both poems, through poetic device and figurative language used, tell the readers about the responsibilities of human life to do before he or she dies. These may be responsibilities of any duties and choices in human life. Through the first poem, Robert Frost reminds human being for having forgotten his or her duties in life. Then through the second poem, the poet emphasizes the importance of making choices and its consequences of the choices.