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.
Not wanting to choose the wrong one, he examines each road to the best of his ability. Similarly, throughout life, people have to choose between lots of different roads to go down, not always knowing what lies ahead on either path. Frost states, “Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear” (6-7). The traveler analyzed each road and chose the one that looked less traveled. Many times, people try and take the “worn out” road, because some people would rather keep it safe than taking risks through life.
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).
Thompson, and other "critics whose beliefs are centered in an optimistic monism," failed to "comprehend Frost's dualism," and often interpreted the bard's life and art through the lens of "abnormal psychology," resulting in "character assassination" and "severe misinterpretation of his work" (11). Stanlis wants to correct these alleged distortions. It is unlikely that his study will have a significant influence on biographical studies of Frost, which will continue to focus on actions and human relationships, but it will have a noteworthy impact on examinations of his poetry, which is the fundamental reason readers are interested in Frost. Over a long and accomplished career, Peter J. Stanlis has often worked at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and political philosophy, and this emphasis is evident in Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher, a study that explores Frost's relationship to developments in the sciences, the humanities, and politics from the age of Charles Darwin to the time of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Stanlis met Frost at the Bread Loaf Summer
Euripides Essay In his proverb, Euripides implies that whoever won’t want to learn at a young age, he or she won’t want to learn earlier on in life and won’t have a bright future. Also that they would love to go back to learn but it will be too late! Euripides supports his implication because everyone that reads his proverb knows that it’s true. This proverb hit me and gave me so many thoughts. Euripides proverb means so much but in less words.
A Road Not Taken Chris Smith ENG 125 Carolyn Karas 20 December 2013 A Road Not Taken What are choices? Choices are the avenues used to aiding the process of decision making because every situation has multiple outcomes. Neglecting to make conscious and educated decisions, we will fail to gain strength and limit our individual growth. Robert Frost’s “A Road Not Taken” provides us as readers with a perfect depiction of what struggles life may have in store for each of us. His poem captivates his readers or listeners and sends them on a fictional road that describes how each situations outcome may be altered by the choices being made and how a conclusion will be different every time.
This is why the speaker takes his time thinking which path to choose because not only is he concerned about which road to take but also which path in life is the correct one. There could be more than one correct road but in reality you only choose one. When the speaker finally chooses a path automatically it can feel the mood changes because the speaker knows that it will not come back to be able to take the other path, left by in the past. The character then regrets its missed opportunity. In the beginning of the poem when the traveler is introduced for the first time he has to make a decision of what road to take.
The Great Depression ultimately changed the relationship between the government and its people. Irony is used in the poem in which the title of the poem “The Unknown Citizen” engulfs the motive and meaning of the poem. Throughout the poem he uses irony phrases such as “in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word” and “For In everything he did he served the Greater Community” (Clugston, 2010, Lines 3 & 5). To the state or society of his era, he seems to be happy as long as he is not different from any others. However, the unknown citizen might not be doing all those in order to serve the Greater Community, because the unknown citizen knows that by doing so, he is secured and advantages will be collected on his side.
Mr. Keating talks him in being a free-thinking individual and leader, Todd Anderson was able over come the final obstacle of his instability only following after his friend Neils suicide. Charles Dalton Charlie can be considered as a dynamic character because he takes on the role as an above the law role, he feels he should always be in conrol of the situation and that he will not have to face the consequences of any of his avtions. He changes toward the end though because he doesn't care about authority until Mr. Keating gets to him. Then at the end when wellton is trying to find who the reason of neils suicide is Cameron tells the authority that it was Mr. Keatings fault Charlie gets pissed off and punches Cameron across the face. It shows that hes starting to care about Mr. Keating and before you wouldn't of been able to see that in his
These people have the right to accept this and other people believe that they can change their perspective of life. There could be a reason someone believes that there life should be different and some just no longer want their life to go on like in Hamlets Soliloquy. Hamlet did not know whether his life was worth living because it was so difficult and he was either going to fight for what he loved or he could have just gave up and let his uncle win. These are always thoughts that go through even the happiest people’s thoughts. Even though someone might be happy or look happy doesn’t mean that they have never thought that life might not be worth living.