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    40 25 April 2014 Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” Everyone’s been faced with a choice to make. Whether the choice can make a big or little impact on our lives‚ it’s still a choice none the less. How we view and accept the outcome of our choice is what’s important. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ Frost decides to take the path less traveled by‚ and instead of accepting his outcome he wishes to change his path. Frost tells of how he takes the road with the “better claim because it was

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    ENG125 Introduction to Literature Final Paper I received 24.09 points out of 25.00 points total. Life is full of choices we make that lead us down roads called journeys. Journey’s shape our life and our perception of our life and other’s lives. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty both share the same theme‚ which is a journey. Each indicate that life is a journey‚ and the outcomes of the journey are based on the choices we have made in life. In one literary

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    ‘The Road Not Take’ the speaker is seen to find himself in a fort junction while taking one of the morning walks. At that particular moment‚ he finds himself in a state of dilemma for he cannot decide which one to opt for‚ successful life ahead. The very first line sets the tone and mood of the poem making it clear to reader that it is this fall season and both the roads appear to be similar with their leaf-littered physical appearance. The speaker is "sorry" he can’t travel both roads‚ suggesting

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    Rail Road is very important to understand as a driver. If you do not follow rules that are set to protect you from danger‚ you can face fatal consequences. It is tragic when you see on the news of train related accident because most of all of them are fatal. As a driver you need to be on the look out when you come to a rail way. On the Warning Devices section of Unit 5 rail road crossing it states‚"Public railroad crossings have been marked with warning devices for your safety by highway departments

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    McCarthy uses language in the road to stir readers emotions. The Road is a story of a father and son fighting to survive in a post apocalyptic world where the basics of humanity have disappeared. The writing is fragmented‚ sparse and‚ from the beginning‚ reflects the barren and bleak landscape through which the father and Son are traveling. McCarthy abandons quotation marks in dialogue‚ he dispenses minimal punctuation. His toying with the rules of grammar and punctuation in effect emphasises the

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    In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ the author uses a rhyme scheme ABAAB in closed form. It consists of four stanzas of five lines and the rhymes are strict and masculine. Combined with vivid description and symbolism Frost tells the tale of a character that has come to a fork in the road and must choose a path to go down. The title the poem is key when deciphering the meaning of the poem. The title is not “the road less travelled’ but instead is the “Road Not Taken.” Both ways are

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    McCarthy’s The Road in a brief 287 pages fell from coldy revealing prose to an unforgivingly graceful monologue about fear. As the Man and the Boy closed their wildly ruthless fight on the Road‚ the characters of the two are revealed‚ stretched paley on thin skeletons that are more bone than body. They know that one must not fear the Road to survive‚ because that means you are living for something‚ but one cannot survive on that fear for long. The Man learned this before his end. He learned that

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    The Journey: Symbolism of “The Road Not Taken” and “A Worn Path” From their titles‚ we realize these short stories will take us on a literary journey but what we do not realize are the choices and obstacles the protagonists encounter that adds dimension to the story. The readers’ perceptions about the events are changed by the symbolism surrounding the characters and the conflicts that are presented. “A Worn Path” is a character story told in a third-person point of view about an elderly

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    The Road The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a survival book dealing with a lot of struggle that gave the characters a choice to either give up or to keep moving Therefore‚ the setting in this book is on a long‚ ash covered road‚ by which the world had been burned by a fire of an untold cause. The main characters are a man and his young son traveling together trying to travel South to survive without being the “bad guys”. In any case‚ they trusted no one but themselves‚ they are always on the run because

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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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