The Road Odyssey
Adventures are the most dangerous types of journeys known to man. On adventures, a hero is usually risking his or her life for something greater than themselves. But If the Hero doesn’t learn anything than the adventure becomes the worst type of journeys. When a hero is on a voyage they are supposed to learn something new to prevent or fix a problem. A journey is pointless if a person doesn’t learn anything new or doesn’t get affected by the experience. Journeys matter more than the destination when the journey transform the traveler more than the destination.
In the odyssey, by homer, Odysseus leaves his home on Ithaca to go on a voyage to win the battle against troy. After 10 years of fighting Odysseus finally wins but now he has to get home which proves to be a challenge because Odysseus finds more hardships on the way home. When Odysseus goes to the land of the dead …show more content…
Frost finally chooses a road which was the one least worn, and he then he says “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence.”(Line 16). Normally people do not talk about the path they chose for a walk as a grand story so this hints at the reader that the poem should be taken more as an extended metaphor rather than to be taken literally. This journey clearly had affected Frost because he acts like this decision affected him greatly in his life. This road might symbolize the journey of life and the choice between the roads can symbolize a major point in Frost’s life that made him choose to do something that other people did or to do something he wanted to do. Robert Frost learned that he didn’t have to do what other people did so that he could feel happy and this helped him along his journey of
In the odyssey, by homer, Odysseus leaves his home on Ithaca to go on a voyage to win the battle against troy. After 10 years of fighting Odysseus finally wins but now he has to get home which proves to be a challenge because Odysseus finds more hardships on the way home. When Odysseus goes to the land of the dead …show more content…
Frost finally chooses a road which was the one least worn, and he then he says “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence.”(Line 16). Normally people do not talk about the path they chose for a walk as a grand story so this hints at the reader that the poem should be taken more as an extended metaphor rather than to be taken literally. This journey clearly had affected Frost because he acts like this decision affected him greatly in his life. This road might symbolize the journey of life and the choice between the roads can symbolize a major point in Frost’s life that made him choose to do something that other people did or to do something he wanted to do. Robert Frost learned that he didn’t have to do what other people did so that he could feel happy and this helped him along his journey of