The Road Not Taken Poem Summary
This poem dramatizes the conflict between a person loving something but having to let it go after it has grown on them. In the first line the speaker is saying that it is not hard to let things go. The art that the speaker is referring to in the first line is losing something. This line is also one of the refrain lines throughout the villanelle.
In line 2 the speaker uses the phrase “filled with intent” to make sure that the reader can also feel the importance of the objects she is talking about. In line 3 it is saying that when it is lost there is no longer a mess of emotions. This is also another line of the refrain which will be repeat through the poem. In line 4 the speaker is saying to learn to adapt and accept the fluster, or craziness, …show more content…
The second part of line 5 when the speaker says “the hour badly spent” is also another reference to an everyday item and the item is time. Most people find time as very important everyday because time is needed to get tasks done throughout the day. To people if an hour is badly spent it is a waste of time to them because they could have been doing something better and they now have to adapt to the fact that they lost a precious hour, even though it is hard to. Line 6 is a refrain of the villanelle. Line 7 is the start of a new stanza. In this line the speaker is saying how the act of letting go and losing is getting faster to do and how far the object that are being let go are getting from the speakers reach. In line 8 the speaker begins to refer to places and people. The places that the speaker likes to travel to she can no longer, and now has to let it go. When she is talking about losing names she is referring to letting go of people that were once close to her but, they are now far away from her relationship wise. In the last phrase where she says “where it was you meant to travel” means places that she, the speaker, has really wanted to travel to but she can no longer do so and has to let go of
In line 2 the speaker uses the phrase “filled with intent” to make sure that the reader can also feel the importance of the objects she is talking about. In line 3 it is saying that when it is lost there is no longer a mess of emotions. This is also another line of the refrain which will be repeat through the poem. In line 4 the speaker is saying to learn to adapt and accept the fluster, or craziness, …show more content…
The second part of line 5 when the speaker says “the hour badly spent” is also another reference to an everyday item and the item is time. Most people find time as very important everyday because time is needed to get tasks done throughout the day. To people if an hour is badly spent it is a waste of time to them because they could have been doing something better and they now have to adapt to the fact that they lost a precious hour, even though it is hard to. Line 6 is a refrain of the villanelle. Line 7 is the start of a new stanza. In this line the speaker is saying how the act of letting go and losing is getting faster to do and how far the object that are being let go are getting from the speakers reach. In line 8 the speaker begins to refer to places and people. The places that the speaker likes to travel to she can no longer, and now has to let it go. When she is talking about losing names she is referring to letting go of people that were once close to her but, they are now far away from her relationship wise. In the last phrase where she says “where it was you meant to travel” means places that she, the speaker, has really wanted to travel to but she can no longer do so and has to let go of