Title: The Road Not Taken My thought: ''The Road Not Taken'' by Robert Frost is a well-known poem about the journey of life. The literal meaning of this poem by Robert Frost is pretty obvious. A traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to go to continue his journey Own Words: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;1 Summary, Stanza 1 :On the road of life, the speaker arrives at a point where he must decide which of two equally appealing (or equally intimidating) choices is the better one. He examines one choice as best he can, but the future prevents him from seeing where it leads. ________________________________________ Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,2 Because it was grassy and wanted wear;3 Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, Summary, Stanza 2 The speaker selects the road that appears at first glance to be less worn and therefore less traveled.
Comparing and contrasting the poetry written by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson is the motive of this essay. Walt Whitman was born May 31st, 1819 and passed away on March 26th, 1892. Whitman who was not shy was a very well known man who had great success during his lifetime. Whitman one of nine children and came from a very poor family thus had to leave school at age 11 to help support his family. He was a man that never attended college.
Going back to the article of Nesbitt (2011), he indicated that Donne had written “no man is an island” as he heard the ringing of a funeral bell which meant that someone had just died. According to him, this event led Donne to the idea that a person’s death is not an isolated case. He would continue his explanation by discussing that the poet’s writing implied that a death of one person affects other people. He would then make the point that those are the reasons why Donne used the words “no man is an island” and “the continent of men” in the Meditation XVI. He concluded by saying that Donne believed man was not supposed be an island, living or dying alone, because each one is a part of the continent of men that eventually becomes smaller as someone passes away (Nesbitt, 2011).
Beowulf & Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Beowulf is considered to be the greatest composition of the Old English verses. It is a heroic poem written by an anonymous author, in Anglo-Saxon. The date of its creation is uncertain since there is only one manuscript left, however it is estimated to have been written somewhere between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century. Although it was written in this period, the events which it deals with go back as far as around the fifth century. The poem consists of roughly 3000 lines and it is divided into forty-three sections.
By the narrator regretting he could only take one path it means they do not have the chance to take many directions in their life at a single time to see how each will play out. This is because he cannot look ahead to see where each choice might lead or where the next choices in each of those roads
The poem is told by an omniscient narrator and consists of twenty four lines; the first stanza contains sixteen lines and the second is an octet. Furthermore, the poem is made up of twelve rhyming couplets, although the majority of the couplets contain near (slant) rhyme: “sun”(1) and “ripen”(2), “sweet”(5) and “it”(6), “for”(7) and “hunger”(8). The outliers are the second couplet of the first stanza, the first and last couplets of the second stanza which all end in a full rhyme. Overall, the poem is written in iambic pentameter, with slight variations. Line fifteen begins, “Like a…”, and since “a” is an article and therefore unstressed, the first foot is a trochee.
The Step Not Taken Analysis Carl Jung one of the first people to use archetypal concept believed life was a pattern. D’Angelo’s story “the step Not Taken” uses an experience of his in which the patterns of archetypal theory re shown in three stages, separation, initiation and interrogation. The ignition stage can also be looked at as a struggle stage. Within this reading the stages are quickly noticed by the narrator’s actions. The reading shows that D’Angelo decided to ignore the man and not provide assistance in his time of need, he chose to leave and continue on his way once his elevator stopped at his floor.
The Poetry of John Berryman Born in Oklahoma, USA in 1914, John Berryman is considered one of the major American poets of the 20th century. His first published work, at the age of 28, a pamphlet entitled 'Poems' (1942), went relatively unnoticed as did his first chapbook 'The Dispossessed' (1948). It was not until the publication of his 'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet' (1956) and most importantly his '77 Dream Songs' (1964) that Berryman attained acclaim in America as well as Europe (especially amongst English writers) and was acknowledged as a new and unique voice in contemporary American poetry. Berryman spent his academic career at the University of Iowa and chaired a writers' workshop there, where he taught some of the greatest American poets of the time. However the result of this campus patronage was not entirely suited to the volatile nature of those poets so situated, as expressed by English writer Stephen Spender who considered the atmosphere in which Berryman worked (one of admiration and isolation) connected to his eventual suicide.
Frost’s Poem and Rhys’ Short Story Symbolic Journeys Ferrari Funches ENG 125 Kamisha Kirby March 11, 2013 Frost’s and Rhys’ Symbolic Journeys No one walks around on this earth without dealing with at least one obstacle in their life. A change within our family, friends, work, or even school can make us want to shake things up from our daily routine. A journey is how we associate our life when we’re looking to move in a different direction. In literal terms a journey is define as a way of travel, but spiritually it’s a process of self-discovery. Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken” (1916) is about a person who is at a significant crossroad in their life in must only choose one road to continue their journey.
Decisions now affect the future Life is full of decisions waiting to be made. Whether that decision is choosing what to eat for breakfast or deciding what the daily activity should be, it will affect an individual’s life in one way or another. The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost tells a story of a man who reaches a fork in the road and must choose which path to take, each path different from the other. In this poem, Robert Frost contends that every decision that one makes, no matter how insignificant it may seem, will have an impact on that person’s life. Robert Frost uses a walk in the woods as a metaphor for making a decision in life, a situation that people face daily.