This attempt to deflect the regret of not choosing the right path can also been seen in the context of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. The Character in this poem takes in the wonderful scene portrayed by the forest and is tempted to stay there longer. In the end the speaker concedes the obligations and responsibilities required by them as well as the substantial drive they accomplish before resting for the night. Whilst this overlying theme or regret attracts similarities of the poems it is clear they quite different and portray diverse meanings. In the ‘Road Not Taken’ the description of the paths and forks winding and splitting throughout the forest
‘Spring’s here, Winter’s not gone’ – Discuss ways in whichThomas presents uncertainty in ‘But these things also’ Uncertainty is a a huge theme that runs throughout the entirity of Thomas’ poetry, particularly in the poem ‘But these things also’. He does this by using a variaty of techniques suchas his choice of imagery, language and also the lack of rhyme. Thomas used this lack of a rhyme scheme to show the reader that he felt poetry shouldn’t be twisted to fit a certain mould. Thomas often used nature as a topic for his poems, because as a poet he felt he could relate to the uncertainty of it, and this becomes clear to the reader within ‘But these things also’. Immediately as a reader we are thrown into the theme of uncertainty due to the ambigious title.
Aware of how “way leads onto way” the traveler dislikes that he cannot take both roads. Although he knows that he may never be allowed to travel the other path, he continues on into the better path. Imagine every choice in life like the forked roads in a forest, it gives us a more clear idea of how one decision leads to another and how this choice can either take us deeper into the woods or guide us to safety. Through this, Robert Frost shows us what happens making a choice that we will have to live with for the rest of our life. The poem ends in an almost regretful tone as the traveler looks back at
“The Road Not Taken” proves to be a poem with emotional influence. Throughout the poem the author emphasizes the importance of the choices we make throughout our lives and the consequences we have to deal with in the end. There are two roads that split. The narrator realizes that he cannot go down both roads. He stands at the fork in the road and stares down one road as far as he can.
Frost uses the metaphor of two distinct paths to represent two options in his life that he has to choose from. He uses vivid imagery within this metaphor to describe the differences and difficulties of these choices; the first path “having perhaps the better claim” (7) and the second “grassy and wanted wear” (8). Frost then chooses the less traveled path and ends the poem with the declaration that “that has made all the difference” (20). In addition, the paths opened themselves to Frost “in a yellow wood” (1), portraying that Frost has come to a crossroad in his life where he needs to pause and, in order to get any farther, also needs to make a choice between the two paths. The yellow represents both a need for an analytical and pensive pause, as well as the fraying and dying season as steps foot into a different one.
The poems which I am going to analyze are “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken”. Firstly, imagery is one of the poetic devices which Frost present frequently in his poetry. According to Soanes (2007), imagery is the use of “language to produce images in the mind.” This means that, imagery engages the reader to visualize or create those pictures clearly in the mind, even though they are not actually drawn in the poem, but the poet present them by the use of language. Imagery is a literary device through which the poet gives sensory experiences. The poet makes use of images or pictures to achieve what he intend to do.
In Frost’s poem, for example, the road not taken is that road which most people are afraid to walk….the hard road. The road is ”grassy and wanted wear” (line 8), because nearly no one walks it. In ‘Life’, Herbert uses metaphors in a similar yet somewhat different way. As in Frost’s poem, the poet was thinking on what to do next … “I made a posy while the day went by” (line1). This shows us that we must know the present and the past to know our outcome of the near future.
Just like other things in this poem, they are directed and related to nature. In a simile, comparing aspens quiver, as there is a little breeze, “Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver” From here, the reader is exposed personification, “The knights come riding two and two. She hath no loyal Knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.” The two knights riding in is showing she has no true knight. In conclusion, there is a straightforward pattern and structure to compose and describe the nature and Lady of Shalott for the combined same lengths of stanzas and lines, the random
However, through Browning’s use of poetic devices, he reveals that the two men each have different reasoning behind their objectification. In the poem “Porphyria’s Lover,” Robert Browning uses multiple poetic devices that illustrate his character’s internal struggle with his ultimate objectification of his lover. Browning uses several imageries that give the poem a light yet foreboding tone. The poem opens with the typical Gothic weather imagery which foreshadows an alarming event. The “sullen wind” then takes the reader to the second phase of the poem in which Porphyria informs her lover that she can no longer keep visiting him because she cannot cut her previous ties (Porphyria’s Lover 2).
Frost commented humorously on Thomas’s inability to find satisfaction at the end of the walk, saying, “No matter which road you take, you’ll always sigh, and wish you’d taken another.” This seems to be where the poem got its start. Frost starts out by saying, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” This is meant to represent life’s decisions; we prefer to know what each choice will lead to, but we cannot truly understand the full ramifications of our selections. Even if we determine that the choice we made was probably the best one, we