Jeremy Nable Sara Stephens 31 January 2013 Poem Explication The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Robert Frost is an excellent poet and will be remembered for his works for as long as they exist. Personally Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets‚ so when I saw this poem‚ I had to use it to write my explication. When I read The Road Not Taken‚ it really hit close to home to me. I get the sense from Frost that he is implying that he doesn’t want people to conform to society. Basically he
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not simply experiencing life‚ but learning from one’s experience. Such is demonstrated in Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson‚” and Robert Frost’s‚ “The Road Not Taken”. “The Lesson” demonstrates a child’s shift from arrogance to learning a lesson she was resistant to learning through the experience that her teacher provided. “The Road Not Taken” demonstrates the value of having to put in effort to work one’s way through life to gain the experience necessary to be successful. Both involve the gain of
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sitting around‚ being lazy and go out‚ find work‚ and do it to the best of their abilities.“The Road Not Taken” and “To be of use” are two poems in which their meanings differ‚ one is about making a decision and the other is about getting the job done. The “Road Not Taken” and “To be of use” are two incomparable poems because they have completely different meanings. The “Road Not Taken” is a poem written about a man coming to a point in his life where he had
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“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Lindsey Stevens ENG102W September 22‚ 2012 “A Road Not Taken” is a poem that most of have read or heard of at one time or another by the writer Robert Frost. I first read this poem in Elementary school but it always stuck with me whenever I would read it again. “A Road Not Taken” shadows that we as humans make choices regardless if the choice was good or bad‚ there are consequences that affect our destiny. The setting of “A Road Not Taken” takes place
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Compare and Contrast the Speakers Lakesha Wilson Everest University The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening are both very good poems. I feel The Road Not Taken is one that reminds me of myself. I will tell you how they differ but at the same time are so much alike. In The Road Not Taken he lets us know that he has to make a decision. In order to make that decision he looks as far as he can to see what road he wants to take. He talks about how the path he took may
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Poetry Explication of “The Road Not Taken” In “The Road Not Taken‚” by Robert Frost‚ he depicts a person that comes to a decision that they had made in their past. They have a couple of choices‚ hence the two roads that were depicted in the poem. But the speaker is going deeper; he is facing two choices both having pros and cons in the decision and in the end the speakers decision affects them for the rest of their life. The speaker in the first line states that he is facing two roads‚ two
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English 1020 August 27‚ 2008 People make decisions consciously‚ subconsciously‚ and constantly. After reading Robert Frost’s poem‚ The Road Not Taken‚ I began to ponder the value of the speaker’s words. The speaker demonstrates decision making by describing a person as a traveler‚ debating which road to take on his journey. In The Road Not Taken‚ the traveler comes across two roads; however‚ there are often more questionable paths in life. In essence‚ this poem uses different symbols to stress
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and series of events to a climax or tipping point in the story causing a reaction of fear in the reader. In that stories such as “fall of the house of the usher”‚ “House taken over” and “beware: do not read this poem”‚ all have events leading to a transformation signifying unexpected consequences. The short story “house taken over” shows transformations of events and occurrences through the story. “When i heard something in the dining room or library”. (¶ 6) The house they live in is empty and
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Robert Frost‚ author of the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” writes about a point in his life when he reaches a divide. He illustrates this concept through a fork in the woods‚ something that many people reading this would find themselves relating to. This section of the poem‚ along with the rest of the poem‚ is composed in such a way that every line from there onwards further explains how the story unfolds once one of the paths between the two that face a person‚ is chosen. It can be said that Frost
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