Analysis on the “Road Not Taken” The poem the “Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a short poem that puts the speaker at a fork in the road. He must choose a path but both ways are equally worn. He chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other path another day. But he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do so. He admits that someday he will recreate the scene with a different outcome.
Consider the importance of journeys in Edward Thomas’ poetry. Edward Thomas often transports us back to the countryside, in poems such as ‘Adlestrop’, ‘Aspens’ or even ‘The Mill-water’, in his mourning of the loss of rural England and the changeability of nature brought by the industrial revolution and the war. Referring more than once to the battlefield, he embarks his reader on a journey to France or inside England where the war can be felt. The image of roads and paths as means to travel and explore physically and spiritually is recurrent in Thomas’ poetry, for example in ‘Roads’ and ‘Over the hills’. In addition to providing journeys through space, Thomas offers journeys through time and memory, as in ‘Old man’.
Just as Chris is trying to overcome the dangers of nature, he is overcoming the doubts that he has within himself, which include his fears of developing close and personal relationships and his fear of being judged. The trip to Alaska pushes Chris to his limits and in the end he finally comes to identify with himself, he comes to grips with his personality, and that he wanted to share his experiences with others. In addition to using nature as a way to find himself, Chris also uses nature as a method of avoiding his own realities, such as his relationship troubles with his parents. Chris
Robert Frost for example portrays a fork in the road and the decision of which path he should follow. He seems to know that whichever path he chooses he will have to live and deal with the consequences and outcome of that particular path for the remainder of his life. One path is beaten and worn and the other is grassy and is full of adventure. Robert, in my own interpretation, is choosing to take the one less traveled which signifies to me that he was an adventurer and wanted to make his own way instead of following the crowd and doing as others would do. With
In the next stanza the presentation of nature and the day is ambivalent. It switches from many different types of weather throughout the stanza, there may be a link between the different types of weather and his emotions changing. The second stanza talks about “hail and wind”, “sun filled earth”, “almost warmth” and “the cold burning” these quotes show the ambivalence of the poem presenting the ambivalence in nature through this. It shows
The most prominent message that Frost is trying to convey through the poem “The road not taken” is the crucial nature of making decisions. There comes a time in his life where he has to decide which of the two equally seemingly appealing choices is a better one and makes the decision to take either one. Frost illustrates this theme clearly in several lines throughout the poem. For example” Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both” (Frost) whereby he takes up the metaphor of a road splitting into two separate routes and he is standing at the point of divergence. Since he can only travel one way, he has to make a conscious decision of choosing the right path.
This phrase tells us of the late soldier’s profession before his service; a farmer. Owen describes the fields as yet to be sewn; this could also have connotations of dreams yet to be realized. Owen uses pathetic fallacy to create mood as he speaks of ‘snow’. The image of the snow is very calming and beautiful which reflects the tone. ‘Old sun’ suggests that the soldier is in a different realm now and that he has crossed over from what used to be.
I chose to analyze "The Road Not Taken" and "Nothing Gold Can Stay" because of the hidden philosophical views. Essentially, that is what Robert Frost is about, "hiding" his personal feelings, leaving it up to the reader to interpret the meanings. "The Road Not Taken" is such a thought-provoking poem. It reminds me of my own recent choice in changing my life's path to the "one less traveled by." And "Nothing Gold Can Stay" reminds me that not even nature has perfection forever, and to live life to the fullest with those I love most, because life is brief, just like the "early flower."
More specifically the Loss of Innocence Archetype is used to showcase the theme. After the narrator in "The Road Not Taken" makes the choice of taking once of the roads in the forest he states that "Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if i should ever come back". The narrator faces thhe realization that when we make decisions in life that we may or may not regret we are unable to go back and undo what has been done. The choice that had been made by the narrator affected his life in a way he was not able to change or do anything about . After Charlie recieves his surgery in "Flowers for Algernon" he begins to understand many things he was unable to before.
In Frost’s “The Road Not Yet Taken”, his persona is that of a person with a tale of a life journey through a metaphoric “wood”. On two roads we imagine this person coming to a crossing; “Two roads diverged in yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both” (Clugston, 2010). This is our first insight as a reader to the choice that this persona must make. It is said that this poem written by Frost was