Using a structuralist analysis of Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening, many interesting themes and nuances that were not initially noticed arise. All the binary oppositions in this poem produce a distinct feeling of “Nature versus Culture.” Some of these binaries include knowing/not knowing and village/forest (full list of binary oppositions on last page). The binary opposition of knowing/not knowing is particularly interesting because it reveals a theme that runs throughout the poem: culture is something that humans can understand, it is digital; but nature remains a mystery, it is analog. However, there are several categories that do not fit into these very clear-cut binary oppositions. An anomalous category, something that straddles the boundary between two opposing binaries, can create disruption and harm culture. In this particular poem, “sound” and “wood” are powerful anomalous categories. The other man is both in the village and in the woods, because these woods belong to him, which means that he also straddles the boundary between here and there (if only by purchasing of materials). The fact that this man owns the forest places him in a category of civilized/natural because he acquired the land through civilization but he did not develop it. “Woods” can also be seen as an obvious abnormal category as they are described as both “beautiful” and “dark”. This also straddles the line between queer and normal, as the woods seem strange, but they shouldn't since they are part of a nature and something that man has probably seen before (because he knows whose the woods). There is also confusion between error/objective versus intention; the horse seems to think it was a mistake to stop here. Yet the man stops here deliberately. Finally, the woods......middle of paper......which tend to be more objective. Additionally, it is much easier to be objective because ads allow readers to engage with the ad using the switch test. Overall, the biggest difference apparent in the comparison between Stopping in the Woods on a Snowy Evening and the Toyota 4-Runner advertisement is the subjectivity available in literary versus ideological texts. Ideological texts, particularly advertising ones, make it possible to better see the major messages thanks to the implementation of the switching test. In addition to the switch test, there is an abundance of obvious examples of major structuralism terms like boundary rituals, logic of concreteness, etc. But the subjectivity and uncertainty of the poems make these terms more difficult to discover and ration. The inability to “test” importance levels in literary texts also hampers the parser..