What Robert Frost poem must be recited for a lap dance in Death Proof?

The Robert Frost poem recited for a lap dance in Death Proof is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

In the film, radio DJ Jungle Julia announces that Arlene can be persuaded to give a lap dance if a man calls her “Butterfly,” buys her a drink, and recites part of Frost’s poem. Stuntman Mike later claims the offer, creating one of the movie’s most memorable and uneasy conversations before the violence begins.

Frost wrote the poem in 1922, and it was published in his 1923 collection New Hampshire. Its quiet imagery of a traveler pausing to watch snowy woods contrasts sharply with Death Proof’s exploitation-film atmosphere and Mike’s predatory behavior.

A common mix-up is The Road Not Taken, another famous Frost poem. That poem concerns a choice between paths, while “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is the one specifically named in Death Proof. The theatrical cut and the longer international version differ in several scenes, but the poem remains tied to Arlene’s promised lap dance.