Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” represent choices that are made in everyday life, choices to take your own path or to follow in society’s foot steps. In the poems the speaker is in a predicament where he has to choose between two paths in life. In “The Road Not Taken” the speaker chooses a different “road” than society would normally choose, showing the speaker’s uniqueness. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the speaker is confronted by choosing nature or society. He finds himself wanting to be rid of society and all the things that it represents.
The poem titled "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is about a person looking back on a choice they once had to make. The way things turned out are not said to be good or bad. The narrator states that the choice they made has made “all the difference” in the way his life has changed. This poem is about the importance of choices made in ones life. The poem begins with the narrator regretting that he had not been able to take both paths instead of being forced to take just one to one.
Before he was caught up in the moment, without much room for thinking he chose to follow his sense of justice. But his choice lead to an outcome he had not expected, and now that he has a chance to catch his breath Sarty is unaware of the great distance he has traveled, metaphorically rather than figuratively, this suggests that Sarty has not fully acknowledged the significance of his actions towards the building of his character. Faulkner uses Sarty’s home metaphorically as it symbolizes the familiarities and comforts he must leave behind in order to come to terms
They both describe how one goes through life learning from life’s struggles. Paulo Coelho says in The Alchemist “We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property, but this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world are written in the same hand” (Coelho 76). What Paulo is talking about, is that we are afraid of loss. One does not want to lose their belongings, but once one understands that one’s life needed to lose those things in order to become who they are in life. In comparison Gary Allan sings “Life ain’t always beautiful some days I miss your smile I get tired of walking all these lonely miles” (Gary Allan).
Or, even get away with it! There must have been some other unseen force at work. Smith felt it best to look at the lines, but I find it best to look between the lines. Carefully read study and hypothesize, and when you are done, what’s found there might just surprise you. I disagree with Smith because her view of things simply isn’t practical.
Robert Frost uses a walk in the woods as a metaphor for making a decision in life, a situation that people face daily. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1), each road starts from the same place, but may lead to two entirely different destinations and the traveler has no idea where those destinations may be. Not sure which path to choose, and afraid of making the wrong choice, he compares the two roads, much like humans do when debating a choice, weighing out the pros and cons. Many times, people tend to choose the easy way out. The path that is traveled more often has a predictable outcome that keeps one inside their comfort zone, even though it may not be the most beneficial choice.
Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken seems to represent indecision. It tells us about a travelers who is standing in front of two different roads that basically look the same. He doesn’t know where each of the roads leads to, but he should make a choice whether he would take the first road or the other in order to move forward. Of course the roads here are just a symbol. It represents something much concrete in our reality: choices.
Where I Lived and What I Lived For Analysis Natalie Henry ____________________________ The location of Thoreau is identified, Walden Pond. It seems that it is implied that it is far from civilization. Thoreau continues to go into detail about why he chose this place to settle down- because he "wished to live deliberately". It seems that he does not want anything to be any more complicated than it really has to be. He believes deeply in simplicity.
Stoicism Stoicism is the philosophy that states one has free will, but there are aspects in which one can and cannot control. Although Stoics believe in fate, there are “appropriate actions, in addition to just controlling our attitudes.” (AOW, 197) Stoics also emphasized on acceptance of such fate and detachment as well as self-discipline. They believed Stoicism was a way of life and not just an interesting type of knowledge. (SEP, p. 2) In order to achieve happiness, one must detach themselves from personal relationships and motives and also reject emotion as much as possible. (AOW, 209) As Epictetus says in his Manual, everything has a price and the price of happiness is personal detachment from the outside world.
Kant sees this as similar to making moral decisions as the moral choice is not always the desired choice and therefore not in your self interest. This is why Kant uses his ‘categorical imperative’ as it simply is “I must do ‘x’” because there is no possibility of conflicting with self interest. The categorical imperative also has two parts; universal law and ends and means. This determines if the action you are considering to