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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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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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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Frost created a scenery where the speaker is looking at a long fork in the woods. Either the speaker can go down one road or go down the other‚ but the speaker does not know which one is the best route. He describes one side of the road to be “grassy and wanted wear; though as for that‚ the passing there‚ had worn them really about the same time” (line 8). In other words‚ the road was well used and known to the community. Then he describes the other side of the fork “in leaves no steps had trodden
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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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Miscommunication Lakeisha Young COM 200 Prof: Aisha Meeks September 13‚ 2011 I was asked have I ever had a miscommunication with someone close to me simply because I assumed that they understood me. In response to the question asked‚ I can say that I have had miscommunication with someone because I did not fully understand what was said. Miscommunication is a situation that I find happening a lot. There are many ways of miscommunication. “People commonly believe that they communicate better
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basically says that everyone is a traveler and choosing the roads to follow on the map of life is never a straight path that leaves someone with one single direction in which to head. The poet’s point of view in this poem is his belief that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. From the tone of this poem‚ he has an inspiring and thoughtful mood. "I shall be telling this with a sigh‚ somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I took the one less traveled
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