When I first read this poem, I was confused because I noticed that the poem was written from second person point of view because the author repeatedly used “You” and “I” a lot. Also the poem has no stanzas; therefore it’s more like a letter. I would have thought he was talking to a friend or about a friend if it wasn’t titled “To myself”. The author seemed to have lost himself even though he knew who he really was. I felt like the first three lines of the poem “Even when I forget you; I go on looking for you; I believe I would know you” explains how sometimes we lose ourselves and forget the people we used to be but we’ll never stop wanting to be who we used to be.
It’s human nature to judge people we don’t know. It’s our minds way of protecting ourselves. If someone seems out of the ordinary, his or her actions may be as well. Judgment allows us to keep our distance and ensure that being naïve isn’t the last thing we do. John Berryman’s, “the Traveler,” is a poem about a nomadic man who is always different from the people around him.
In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front the reader can infer that the narrator Paul Baumer as we know him in the novel is very different from Paul Baumer before he experienced war. He had plans to write a play and a love of literature that was lost after experiencing the horror of life in the trenches. It is shown in his apparent aestheticism, inability to fantasize beyond reality, and his lack of faith in the human race. The things Paul experienced truly changed his life. Throughout the novel Paul seems to leave his emotions behind in order to survive.
In the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth lines he tells that he will save the first road for another day and take the second road even though he doesn’t know where they lead he may not ever come back. In the thirteenth line there is alliteration in the words “first” and “for”. In line sixteen through twenty of the poem the speaker is disappointed with his self. He talks about how he shouldn’t have took the road less traveled by like most others. In line nineteen there
Because of their situation this possibly emphasises the fact that they don't really matter and that they have no values. For example “like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast.” this shows that they are probably lucky to be alive in some sense, but they are slightly worthless. There are also no speech marks used in the book. This is possibly because there is only two of them, and with that it shows that they have no form of a routine to their lives. They just have to take it has it comes.
He started from the bottom to the very Top.. This journey he traveled alone and is looking for someone to make it to the top. Most can’t make it through the journey all the changes; weather, restrictions, road closures but he made it!!! And was waiting for YOU!! (NARROW ROAD TO SUCCESS) Journal… Why am I here?
“Don’t go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path…and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Excerpt: This is similar to Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, where the traveler takes the road less traveled after arriving at a fork in the road. We will all face times where we have to make a choice of one or the other and be content with the decided direction. By taking the road less traveled, you’re straying from the normal, you’re not going the same, average way that everyone else goes. actually had not come across this until last year. At the Patriots Hall of Fame, they play a 15 minute video that gives a little history about the Patriots and how they have come to be what they are now.
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 the poem, “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker has to create a big verdict in his life. This poem talks about a person who comes across a fork in the road and he has to choose which way to trail. At the end of the poem, the speaker says, “That has made all the difference”. Creating conflict by selecting the tougher path, the speaker announces his rebellion against the popular opinion as represented by the other road. He decides not to adapt to society and takes up a less popular choice.
If the answer to any of those questions is no/maybe/not sure, it means that a person is living an incomplete life, which is wrong because only that person him(her)self is the creator of his(her) own happiness. So why should (s)he waste time on something worse when (s)he deserves the best? In the analyzed abstract we see that the author wants to get the most from his life and to live it to the fullest extent possible first of all by determining what is really important to him. In order to achieve this he decides to remove himself from what we consider to be normal ordinary life, and goes to live in the woods. He states that he will live a simple life without spending time and money on things he does not need, and thus reducing his economic needs.