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    caught my interest was‚ “The Road not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost (1916). Even though this poem may not affect someone else who reads it‚ I enjoyed its so much. This poem means different things to each person that reads it. I connected with this poem because sometimes I wonder how my life could have been different had I chosen a different road! When I consider this poem both roads were a lot alike—the speaker seems satisfied with the choice‚ and knows that leaving the other road for future travel is not

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    entire life‚ how is it possible to determine which course of action to take? A response to this concept is explored in the internationally acclaimed poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Following the speaker’s thought process as he faces two forks on a road‚ the poem ends with his contented reflection on the final choice of which path to take. By utilizing a variety of poetic devices like metaphor‚ tone‚ and connotation‚ Frost is able to cogently convey the theme of the poem: in the end‚ following

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    English Essay: The Road Not Taken How does the poet use structural and language features to explore a concept of a journey? The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is about choices and the impact that our choices have on our life’s journey and ultimately how these choices have shaped our being. The poem is a metaphor‚ used to represent the concept of a journey. There are a variety of language techniques that Robert Frost has conveyed his message through. Firstly‚ the poem is easy to understand so that

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    Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” In the first stanza‚ Frost is telling of how he sees two roads‚ but he cannot possibly take both. The first road he looks at can only be seen as far as a near curve with undergrowth. The second road he sees has a grassy path and “want[s] wear.” In the third stanza Frost debates which path to take and decides to leave the first road for another day‚ if he decides to ever come back. The fourth and final stanza of the poem tells how Frost is telling the tale with

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    are that it hinders them to get out of their comfort zone and helps them appreciate what they have‚ if a problem occurs while embarking on your voyage it will have to be resolved to make the mission you board on possible. The text analysed “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and the type of text is poetry. My second choice of text was “The Wizard of Oz” by Victor Fleming the text type is a movie. Some possible techniques analysed are rhyme‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ long shot‚ up shot and a full shot.

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    I choose to write about Phoenix Jackson from the story A Worn Path that was written Eudora Welty in 1941. The literacy work that Phoenix seems to display is figurative speech. Phoenix Jackson interests me because she was determined‚ thoughtful and unbreakable. Phoenix is a brittle older black woman who travels a long distance in the woods in the coldest time of the winter to town to get medicine for her ill grandson. During her walk‚ she encountered several things that tried to stop her from reaching

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    “The Road Not Taken” “ The Road Not Taken’‚ by Robert Frost is about a man who chooses one path but is curious and questions the other. The man feels a sense of regret later on in the poem because he would most likely never take the other path ever again. Two primary themes that are developed in this poem are no matter what you are doing in life you’ll be fine and to just go with it because you can’t go back in time. “I shall be telling this with a sigh” (Frost‚16). This states how the man was

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    The story “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty takes place in the 40’s and is of an elderly Negro woman who makes her way on a familiar journey into town to obtain some medicine for her young grandson. In this story‚ Welty describes scenarios where Phoenix Jackson faces many conflicts‚ while heading to the rural part of town‚ with nature and society all while enduring her physical conflicts that make taking this journey a little more challenging than someone in their earlier years of age. I will

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    “A Worn Path” Eudora Welty is a famous southern writer who started her career during the Great Depression. In many cases‚ aspects of an author’s stories usually come from their own experiences or are directly reflected by what is going on in the world at that time. It is evident in her short story “A Worn Path” that it is set during times of economic hardship. In this story the main character Phoenix Jackson‚ “Grandma”‚ goes on a journey that takes her through the dark pine shadows of the woods

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    The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is about the choices in life that affect where we will end up in the future. This is conveyed through the speakers dilemma of choosing a path in a diverged road. It talks of the speaker standing in the woods‚ considering which path to take as the road they are travelling on forks into two. One road has been trodden many times before‚ and the other is less travelled and more over-grown. The speaker chooses the less travelled road and says to themselves that they will

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