Both poems are about travelling and choosing the path to take, and both poems are about travelling through a wood. In `Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', the poet is obviously sleepy and he is talking to himself about how he must keep travelling (`and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep' which sounds very much like he's taking to himself just before he falls asleep) . In the other poem however, he is reminiscing about the choice he took when he came to two roads that diverged into a yellow woo. In `SWSE', the poet comments on his surroundings and more upon his feelings and opinions of the situation and characters at the time, whereas in the other poem, he is contemplating how he wouldn't be where he was if he hadn't chosen the path that he chose.

Both poems tell...