Change
Throughout my exploration of the area of study and Robert Frosts poetry, I have realised that change is a natural partof lifes journey this journey involves realising that change defines a sense of self. The text's The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods On A Snowy Evening communicated this epiphany. This discussion will explore this essay in relation to poetic narative, tone, natural imagery and the motif of time. The various techniques and devices are illistrated throughout both poems, allowing the reader to acknowledge the statement that "Change defines a sense of self".
Frost evocitivley explores the thesis that change defines a sense of self though the poetic narative of The Road Not Taken. TRNT depicts a traveller in a "yellow wood" who comes to a fork in the road. The persona pauses to contemplate which road to take, "long i stood". Eventually, the traveller chooses one road "keeping the first for another day" while "doubting thst he should ever come back". The poem closes with a profound medatative statement "somewhere ages and ages hence". "I took the ones less travelled by and that has made all the difference." Thus, it is show that change defines a sense of self by highlighting the main idea that the persona has to go throught changes that define who he is to continue and grow as a person throughout life.
Frost in The Road Not Taken employs an intimate reflective and at times regretful tone in exploring the notion that, change defines a sense of self. Frost highlights the sense of loss that accompanies making a decision in the title The Road Not Taken. The persona is "sorry" that he "cannot travel both and be one traveler" (and reatain his identity) S/He realizses the poignancy of the situation which is conveyed in the emotionally charged "oh" and reinforced by the meditative realisation that " I kept the first for another day" , " Yet knowing way leads onto way, i doubted if i should ever come back." This notion of loss and awareness of the impact
Frost evocitivley explores the thesis that change defines a sense of self though the poetic narative of The Road Not Taken. TRNT depicts a traveller in a "yellow wood" who comes to a fork in the road. The persona pauses to contemplate which road to take, "long i stood". Eventually, the traveller chooses one road "keeping the first for another day" while "doubting thst he should ever come back". The poem closes with a profound medatative statement "somewhere ages and ages hence". "I took the ones less travelled by and that has made all the difference." Thus, it is show that change defines a sense of self by highlighting the main idea that the persona has to go throught changes that define who he is to continue and grow as a person throughout life.
Frost in The Road Not Taken employs an intimate reflective and at times regretful tone in exploring the notion that, change defines a sense of self. Frost highlights the sense of loss that accompanies making a decision in the title The Road Not Taken. The persona is "sorry" that he "cannot travel both and be one traveler" (and reatain his identity) S/He realizses the poignancy of the situation which is conveyed in the emotionally charged "oh" and reinforced by the meditative realisation that " I kept the first for another day" , " Yet knowing way leads onto way, i doubted if i should ever come back." This notion of loss and awareness of the impact