The Road Not Taken: A defence for the road that was taken Although the literary devices and word choices used can be misleading as to how the poet feels about the road he chose‚ the poem‚ “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ is firmly proved to be about his satisfaction of the road that was taken This is proven from very specific and strategically located literary terms and diction that firmly supports this thesis statement. In the first stanza‚ the poet contemplates which road
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experience is 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
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Juxtaposing “The Road Not Taken” and “New Directions” In “New Directions” by Maya Angelou‚ Annie Johnson is a Negro woman in the early 1900s that is faced with two toddling sons‚ very little money‚ and a slight ability to read and add simple numbers. After she and her husband part amicably‚ Annie decides she does not want to work as a domestic and leave her kids to anyone else’s care. Because she knows that there is no possibility the town’s cotton gin or lumber mill will hire her‚ she decides
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The Road Not Taken‚ By Robert Frost The poem “the road not taken” by Robert Forts is a traditional poem; its central theme is storytelling about life experience. The last statement “And that has made all the difference” gives to the poem an open ending because we don’t know what difference it did make‚ if this phrase means that he had made the correct choice and so the difference it was for better or if he had made the wrong choice and so he is regretting because that decision that he made was
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One of Robert Frost’s well known and most favored poem of all times is “The Road Not Taken.” The poem is fabricated of four stanzas which is made up of five lines each‚ and each line possess between eight and ten syllables in a approximately verse line pattern. The flow of the lines in each stanza range in an abaab tempo. The poem is so popular and familiar because the symbols of the poem is simple and easy to understand. The spokesman of the poem has the obligation to choose between two separate
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In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ the message is that everyone should be able to have a choice about what path in life he or she takes. In the poem‚ the speaker is walking along a path when the road splits into two. One path is more used and popular‚ but the other path is not used as much. This helps the reader understand the poem by explaining that you could either go the road more used and become like everyone else‚ or you could take the road not taken and be your own person within
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called “The Road Not Taken.” The three questions are‚ do you think the “road” that the speaker took was really the less traveled one? Why do you need to be a member? What do you think the chances are that the speaker will get to come back and try the other path? Do you think the speaker regrets his choice‚ or is happy about it? The speaker of the poem “The Road Not Taken” either takes the road less traveled by or takes the normal trail. I believe that the author of the poem “The Road Not Taken” chose
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Left or Right In the poem‚ The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost‚ Frost describes a scenario in which he is looking down two different paths. He has come to a fork in the road and now must make a decision and pick which path he will take. To express what he really means when he talks of the two roads which is that in life there are always two choices a yes and a no‚ a good and a bed etc. Frost uses different types of figures of speech. The two main types of figures of speech that are used are metaphors
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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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The Road Not Taken The main theme in “The Road Not Taken”by Robert Frost is about making choices.The poem starts off when the speaker finds himself walking by the woods and comes across a cross road.The speaker then has to decide which way to continue by. One road seems to be as if it has been traveled many times‚ causing the road to be easier to travel by. That is because many people have already walk that path and worn it out. Yet‚ the other road seems to be more problematic to be traveled by‚
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