The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost addresses the idea of decision-making and choosing what direction life will take you. The poem is about the speaker arriving at a fork in the road‚ where both paths are carpeted with leaves. The persona‚ who is believed to be Frost himself‚ chooses to take the road less traveled by. He tells himself that he will take the other road another day‚ although he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do so. The poem concludes with the
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and possibilities are inherent in the journeys individuals undertake‚ but the extent that one dominates or interacts with the other differs widely. The poems “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “The French Prisoner” by Janos Pilinszky‚ both explore journeys that include realities and possibilities. “The Road Not Taken” uses “road” as an extended metaphor. The journey undertaken by the persona is not merely physical‚ however‚ the journey is metaphysical in nature. This poem explores journey as
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the path may lead Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Robert Frost Everyone is a traveler‚ choosing the road to follow on the map of his journey‚ life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with a sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey‚ his poem‚ "The Road Not Taken"‚ has left its readers with many different interpretations. It is one’s past‚ present‚ and the attitude with which he looks upon
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year. Throughout the whole collection the theme of loss and diminishment is pervasive. And the poem “No Road” is not an exception either. In his poems of this series Larkin invents stanza forms of intricate patterns that become one with the content of the poem. His rigorous adherence to these patterns brings the sadness into sharp relief and gives the emotions their authority. The poem “No Road” is divided into three stanzas each of which has its own idea and theme‚ but on the whole they make the
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The Road Cormac McCarthy 287 Pages 1) The Road falls under the category of Science Fiction or Fantasy. Set in a post-apocalyptic America‚ the novel is stylistically very fragmented and vague from the beginning. While this is a peculiar writing style with short‚ choppy sentences‚ and lacking in quotation marks and‚ often times‚ apostrophes‚ using this style adds to the bleakness and mood of the novel. “He lay listening. The boy sat by the fire wrapped in a blanket watching him. Drip of water
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Film Analysis: Taken The movie Taken is about a Father’s quest to rescue his daughter from her abduction and nearly immanent disappearance into the dark world of the international sex trade. Brian’s worst fears are realized when Kim and her friend are immediately abducted from the Paris apartment at which they’ve just arrived. While Kim is being dragged away by the as yet unknown abductors‚ she manages to phone Bryan‚ who begins to piece together clues that will take him to the darkness of Paris’s
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have admirable characteristics as well. Many characters may seem to have an irresponsible nature‚ but there is usually a reason for these things‚ as well as motives and backstories that play a role in influencing the characters’ decisions. In On The Road by Jack Kerouac‚ Dean Moriarty is an example of one of these morally ambiguous characters. He has many traits that seem dispicable to the reader‚ but there is also proof that he has exceptional characteristics as well-such as his friendship with Sal
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of what is passing right before her eyes. She doesn’t seem to be concerned with where she is going‚ in fact‚ she’s enjoying the scenery. It may be possible that she knows she’s maybe seeing these things for the very last time. These things were taken for granted in life‚ yet they become more meaningful as her journey comes to an end. Death has no concept of time or any concerns that someone would. It is the Sun that is moving "He passed Us"‚ indicating the passage of time by its daily course across
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A Father’s Unconditional Love and Absent Limits of Protection Throughout The Road the story boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains‚ but in which the father and his son‚ “each the other’s world entire‚” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision‚ it is an firm meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness‚ desperate tenacity‚ and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. The father’s
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The formalist method of literary criticism is primarily focused on the text itself‚ rather than external topics such as history and background‚ the author’s biographical information‚ or the social contexts which surround a piece of work. In the formalist perspective‚ we ask ourselves‚ why did the author choose to write his or her work in this specific style? Why did he or she choose to include certain literary elements? "What matters most to the formalist critic is how the work comes to mean what
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