inspiring mind into mysteries and the choices we come across in life‚ the issues of mortality and morals‚ and one’s view of death are explored in such a way‚ one may find it difficult but to be inspired by his work. “After Apple Picking” and “The road Not Taken” at first appear to be worryingly similar to each other. Not only they were crafted by the same poet at approximately the same time‚ but the actual content dig into similar ground as in the two of them‚ they mostly drenched into the past rather
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New Hampshire (1923). He received it again for Collected Poems (1930)‚ A Further Range (1936)‚ and A Witness Tree (1942). Over the years he received an unprecedented number and range of literary‚ academic‚ and public honors. 1 <br> <br><b>The Road Not Taken</b> <br>Although I must admit that I am not a poetry fan‚ many of the poems of Robert Frost appeal to me‚ and this would have to be the one that appeals the most‚ in other words‚ it is my favorite poem. When I first read this poem‚ I liked it
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recipient‚ Frost was appointed as Poet Laureate of Vermont in 1961. Readers are likely to interpret his poems in many different ways depending upon their emotional state. Among the three poems assigned for the reading‚ I was much impressed with “The Road Not Taken” because of its simplicity and meaningfulness. Frost himself commented that it was “a tricky poem‚ very tricky.” In the fourth stanza of the poem‚ Frost writes: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and
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Albert Pujols Gage Hart English I 12/17/12 Odd 4th In Robert Frost’s poem‚ “The Road Not Taken‚” Frost implies that in life a person can choose to take one of two roads. One of those roads is the simple‚ easy path with few complications or trials while the other road is “less traveled” and proves to be the more difficult‚ winding road of life. Both roads provide a course through life; however‚ the less traveled one often makes the biggest difference. It is obvious that Albert Pujols‚ when
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The Road Not Taken. The expressed content of the poem is simply that of the speaker‚ Frost himself‚ out on a walk one day in a wooded area. As he is out walking‚ he arrives at a place in the road that forks‚ where he has to decide which way he is going to go. However‚ the implied context in this piece of work is much more complex. The entire piece is one whole metaphor for life. In this paper‚ I am going to attempt to explain the role and use of the metaphor in Frost’s‚ The Road Not Taken‚ and
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explicating poems‚ and actually I do not really like poetry‚ although they are beautiful and interesting because I often have a hard time to understand tem. In this essay‚ I choose two poems to explicate‚ which is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Road Not Taken”. Through the process of completing this assignment‚ I have a lot of struggles such as the deeper meaning of each line‚ the grammar‚ the balance between two poems‚ and the figurative languages. Furthermore‚ when I am writing the essay‚ I have
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ The key word here is "two". Throughout our lives we constantly face decisions where we have two choices. Even when it seems there is only one choice‚ we can decide either to DO it‚ or NOT do it; so there are STILL two alternatives. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler‚ long I stood Then there are times we wish we could do BOTH; HAVE our cake and eat it too! We know we can’t‚ so we must agonize over the choices; weigh the possibilities. And
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The Shadow’s Personality. “I am what you have made me.” (Great Expectations‚ 238). Some aren’t able to control their own actions‚ and their purpose in life is decided by someone else. In the Victorian era fiction novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ the main character Estella‚ is a beautiful girl raised and controlled by her adoptive mother‚ Miss Havisham to wreak havoc on the male sex. Even though they have the same purpose‚ and have similar qualities‚ both characters have
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My whole life I have been told what to do. As a child‚ my parents had the life they wanted me to live sketched out in their minds. From the way I learned‚ they way I dressed‚ what I should and shouldn’t believe in‚ to what I was supposed to know and think. When I was young I listened to everything they said and was molded perfectly into what they wanted me to be. They’re my parents‚ and so I would do whatever they said without question‚ becuase I thought that whatever they told me was the right
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Choices are always inevitable in our lives. Both of the poems "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni talk about how different choices can influence everything. They have many similarities‚ yet also many differences. In "The Road Not Taken"‚ it explains that life decisions have to be made at some point of our lives. Throughout the story‚ there is a pessimistic theme where the author regrets his decision on choosing the wrong path‚ imagining what would have happened
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