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In recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the constant tendency of language to refer to its opposite. The correspondence between word and thing is now felt to be under a threat and the role of language as an efficient means of understanding and interpreting the world has been questioned and problematized. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” in order to show the effusiveness and unpredictability of the language used therein, resulting in the popularity of possible meanings which the text of the poem generates. The analysis reveals how words are an unknown quantity, treacherous and arbitrary, at once a means of securing glory and conquest but also a dangerous force which is not always easy to contain or control.