Using a structuralist analysis of Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, many interesting themes and initially unnoticed nuances emerge. 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 final page). The binary opposition knowing/not knowing is of particular interest 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 analogue. However, there are several categories that do not fall into these clear binary oppositions. An anomalous category, something that straddles the boundary between a pair of opposing tracks, can create disruption and damage the culture. In this poem in particular, both “his” and “woods” are powerful anomalous categories. The other man is both in the village and in the woods, because he owns these woods, which means that he also straddles the here/there boundary (even if only through material acquisition). The fact that this man owns the forest places him in a civilized/natural category because he gained the land through civilization but did not develop it. “Bosco” can also be seen as an obviously anomalous category because it is described as “lovely” and “dark”. It also straddles the line between queer/normal, because the woods look strange, but they shouldn't since they are part of a nature and something that man has most likely seen before (because he knows who owns the woods). There is also a confusion between error/purpose in relation to intent; the horse seems to think it was a mistake to stop here. Yet the man stops here on purpose. Finally the forest... half of the paper... which tends towards the most objective. Additionally, it is much easier to be objective because advertisements allow readers to consume the ad using the switching test. Overall, the most obvious difference seen in the comparison between Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening and the advertisement for the Toyota 4-Runner is the subjectivity available in literary texts versus ideological texts. In ideological texts, especially in advertisements, it is easier to see the main messages due to the implementation of the switching test. In addition to the commutation test, there are plenty of obvious examples of the main terms of structuralism such as boundary rituals, logic of the concrete, etc. But the subjectivity and uncertainty of the poems make these terms more difficult to discover and ration. The inability to “test” levels of importance in literary texts also hinders the analyzer.