“Personal choice often involves moral courage.” By referring to at least TWO of your core poems and ONE other text of your own choice, to what extent do you support the statement? Personal choice creates a struggle between moral courage, and moral cowardice. This idea explored in two of Robert Frost’s poems; ‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy evening’ and ‘The Wood-pile’. ‘Stopping by the woods on a Snowy evening’ explores the two moral choices through the persona’s existential crisis. ‘The Wood-pile’ also exemplifies this struggle, through the persona’s journey in the poem.
Robert Frost: Symbolism and Naturalism Naturalism and man’s fascination with nature helps the human race to become closer to respecting the beauty inherent in nature. A great example of this fascination in nature is the writer Robert Frost whom, through his writing, conveys the beauty and strength of nature. In Frost’s poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Road Not Taken”, and “Acquainted with the Night” he is able to convey his adoration with the natural world with his use of literary devices. In these poems, he is able to display the beauty in nature and show its magnificence using symbols, imagery, and descriptive language. In the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, Robert Frost is able to convey the quiet beauty in nature through his imagery and descriptive writing of the quiet woods.
The purpose of this is to cause restlessness in the reader, there is no rhyme scheme, but there is pattern and Tenneyson has an organization of the stanzas in the poem. The senses that are mainly targeted in this poem are sight, feel, and hearing. Tenneyson creates a vivid picture for the reader, for example, “Tis the fairy The Lady of Shalott.” The reader is made to feel the elements of nature through the poem. This brings the reader to some of the little figurative language found in this poem. Just like other things in this poem, they are directed and related to nature.
At the beginning of the novel, the scene is taken into a forest with plenty of sunshine and a tree promising that life is beautiful. But soon the nature is replaced by a human world that contains jealousy, cruelty, loneliness, ruthlessness, strong and ending emotions, and shattered pieces of dreams. The vision of hope through Steinsbeck’s pen, we feel that we also enter in this world of hope and are drawn into the journey with these common two men, Lennie and George – in the course of the novel we witness their dreams, hopes and courage. Unlike other characters like kings and queens, we have little men
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
Both of these poems contain parallel organization, figurative language, and similarities and differences. In these poems, the idea of suffering is very important. Struggling is so common in these communities in that time period that people have stopped noticing. “About suffering they were never wrong, the old masters.” (Auden, 1-2) this quote means that there are people who understand suffering, and how it occurs. It also shows how it is not important and that people do not notice, like the ploughman, who carries on with his work on the field even after hearing the splash.
However, after reading this poem few times, I like it more since I found that this poem is not just a pastoral poem; rather, it contains many meanings behind the words. Wordsworth tries to memorize his childhood by writing this poem. He was grown up in the country which he uses to be closer to the nature. To him, nature
Another aspect of nature that Frost addresses is the undergrowth. From the poem we grasp the thickness of the undergrowth that engulfs the path, making it disappear. Symbolically, the undergrowth along the path could refer to the uncertainty the future holds for Frost. Similarly, in our daily lives we rarely know what exactly is going to befall us next. The future is uncertain and Frost’s use
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 is a poem written by Robert Frost. Frost effectively uses language features like extended metaphor and rhyme scheme to help me understand the idea of decision and how it will have a significant change in our lives. He used these features because he wants to emphasise the essence of decision making in our lives and it is relevant because it still applies to all of us. The poem is about actual and figurative roads. It shows us how the decisions we make will give a significant change in our lives.