"Whose woods these are…" set to "O Tannenbaum"?
Did anyone else have a College/High School english professor (teacher) introduce you that Robert Frost’s poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" is in the same meter as "Oh Christmas Tree". I can’t listen to the
song now without mentally injecting the poem!
Try it:
"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
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No, I’ve never heard of that. It doesn’t surprise me much, though – with standard formatting, syllables, emphasis, etc., there are probably a lot of possible poem/song matches like that. I don’t know how impressed Mr. Frost would be, but I do know that a lot of professors like to interject odd little bits of information like that, particularly with a sound device of some kind that may help you to remember something. One professor of mine tried to get our class to learn a certain set of Latin terms by putting it to the tune of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" by the Beatles (yes, she actually sang it, and no, no one volunteered to sing it with her). It did get it stuck in my head!
No, I didn’t. What a horrible way to ruin a nice, quiet poem.