In order to find the real meaning in this poem, you must not interpret in a literal sense. Shel says “And watch where the chalk-white arrows go to the place where the sidewalk ends,” meaning that if we are alert and aware, we can find our way back to childhood. What he is trying to tell us that we should leave the world of adulthood, to live again as children. In the last stanza, he says “Yes, we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, and we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go, for the children, they mark, and the children, they know the place where the sidewalk ends.” In that, he is telling us
The title Ancestors links back to the poet’s cultural heritage and its link to his sense of belonging. The poem is occupied with questions that Peter Skrzynecki poses to the reader “how long Is their wait to be?” The questions highlight Peter’s lack of knowledge and confusion in regard to the impact his ancestors and cultural heritage has on his sense of belonging and how it affects it. Post Card explores the concept of belonging to a place. A post card is a simple thing but the poet uses this ordinary object to evoke feelings of great importance to him. The poem wants him to explore his identity and hints at returning to his homeland and in doing so accepting his roots and cultural heritage.
The reality however is that upon closer examination, Robert Frosts true intentions couldn't be further from the aforementioned. In writing this poem, Frost wanted provide a commentary on human nature and, to show that people typically waste time thinking about what are ultimately unimportant decisions. . Firstly, the name of the poem,”The Road Not Taken”, places emphasis on the road that the narrator doesn't travel on, and the structure is as follows: four five line stanzas with the rhyme structure, ABAAB. The setting is a “yellow wood”(1) and there is mention of leaves on the ground in third stanza, so it is assumed that it is the fall and in a metaphorical sense close to the end of the man's life.
Somehow they seem to interconnect by the historical context which motivated these writers to produce such kind of work related to journey although each one of them have described journey in a different way regarding to historical phase which was going on at the time. First of all the historical context of the poem “The Road Not Taken” is World War I and urbanization. This source is useful to show how Frost’s life and his time period affected the poems meaning. Themes can also be used to argue that Frost doesn’t take a side with individuality, but is just trying to say that life is full of choices that can make a difference (Shurr, 2003, 584-590). This source is really admirable because it is very thorough and provides a plethora of
“The Journey leads to greater understanding”. This thesis cleverly states the importance of a journey, it expresses that through experiences in journeys a greater understanding will be obtained. This thesis can be shown in the poems, Summer Rain by John Foulcher and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, the classic American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the children’s picture book, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. In Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken the individual in the poem is analysing two different paths that are both equally appealing, yet he can only choose one to travel. On this journey the individual develops a greater understanding of both of the roads he is choosing from which he starts to develop a clearer view of the two, instead of stereotyping them.
We can relate poetry to life in so many ways. When the light is shone down upon it, will it pierce through and clearly shine onto the other side or will it only be viewed on one side to the vagueness and lack of transparency? The reason I chose to write on “Poetry” and “You, reader” is because I felt the same exact feeling after reading both of these works. I immediately felt like I had peeked into the soul of the author, like I was given permission to analyze their personal true nature. I am not sure I have ever read anything that has made me feel that way, but it was a feeling that I wanted to explore.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the comparison and contrast of contents of two literary works in style and form of elements that these two authors used to make their work excellent and for the readers to understand their different perspective. Content According to Robert Frost and Eudora Welty, they both shared one theme “Journey” in their literary work. Both authors display their theme Journey in a unique way that the reader would learn a good lesson. Both Frost and Welty used style and form elements to explore the amazing of their works. According to Robert Frost his poem was written or told by a First-Person point of view, Frost was consider as the traveler in his poetry, also a narrator who tells the story.
This poem captured my imagination with the tone that was set straight away. Frost presents us with someone who needs to make a choice between two paths; this can be viewed literally as someone in the woods making a choice between two paths, or a life decision that needs to be made. The images described always conjure up the image of a forest in the early fall; yellowing leaves peacefully fall to the ground while someone is contemplating their options. People make varying assumptions about what was being contemplated in this poem, and its ambiguity is what makes it so open to interpretation. One of Frost’s friends assumed the poem was a work of regretting his choice of occupation.
By using different literary methods authors are able to give their readers a better understanding of the message behind the piece of work. Using methods such as themes and symbolism allows readers to find the underlying meaning of the story rather than just simply reading something with no meaning or emotion behind it. While reading Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken and Eudora Welty’s short story A Worn Path, people get a sense that life is a lonely place full of sacrifice at times. Although these two pieces are different, their use of symbolism gives readers a better understanding of the characters in each work and figure out their real struggles with the choices they make. Literature is meant to take its readers to another place and allow them to become part of it, whether it be a story or a poem or play.
Everyday people face decision in their lives, whether big or small these decisions will have a huge impact upon their future. In the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes and the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the two speakers go through a point in their lives where they are forced to make a decision which will affect their lives and well-being. Through these two texts the idea shown is that the choices and decisions people face in their lives will ultimately shape their identity and the future ahead of them. This is shown through literary devices such as Imagery, Archetypes, and Symbolism. Throughout this essay these literary devices will be examined in order to show the theme presented in the literature.