He uses descriptive word to describe the physical surroundings “grassy and wanted ware” and talks about knowing how “way leads onto way” “I doubted I would ever come back” makes the poem important because it indicates that whatever decision he makes would symbolise his life journey. As he has never come to the path before, he knows he can’t change his decision it once he has chosen which path to travel. Life points in one direction. The ‘sigh’ intimates that looking inward, when he reflects upon his life, he will remember the choice he made and although he states he would ‘say’ he took the road less travelled, it is apparent after reading “Though as for that, the passing there, Had worn them really about the same” that both paths had been travelled equally, not one less than the other. The poem tells us that we are free to choose our path, but we do not know beforehand which path we are taking until we have travelled it.
The highway is a metaphor for life and when wright stops on the side of it to enjoy the horses, he is appreciating life and “stopping to smell the roses”. Wright is traveling through this poem, and through his life, with his friend. Wright and his friend step over barbed wire to get into the pasture with the horses. Barbed wire represents a sacrifice or a struggle that Wright has to overcome/take to get away from the busy fast paced highway into the pasture where his life beauty is. Wright also describes the horses as being excited to see the two of them.
EN 111 – Rhetoric II November 2, 2010 “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost – Response I have personally enjoyed this poem since the sixth grade. Many have seen this as in inspirational message and even placed on greeting cards. Often this poem is associated with pictures, because of the great descriptive use of words that Robert Frost uses. Frost uses a four stanza format with the perfect use of rhyming to convey his message. He also twists in some tricky order of word use to make it difficult to read through without having to stop and re-read a line.
Essay: "Acquainted With the Night" by Robert Frost Sometimes a poem can have an immediate hold on us although we're not sure why. Though it sounds contradictory, a powerful vagueness, like a heavy mist, engulfs us when we read or hear the words. This is the feeling I had the first time I read Robert Frost's "Acquainted With the Night." In fact, I was so captured by the poem that I memorized it. However, I never took the time to formally analyzed it to understand what makes it so powerful.
However, through Browning’s use of poetic devices, he reveals that the two men each have different reasoning behind their objectification. In the poem “Porphyria’s Lover,” Robert Browning uses multiple poetic devices that illustrate his character’s internal struggle with his ultimate objectification of his lover. Browning uses several imageries that give the poem a light yet foreboding tone. The poem opens with the typical Gothic weather imagery which foreshadows an alarming event. The “sullen wind” then takes the reader to the second phase of the poem in which Porphyria informs her lover that she can no longer keep visiting him because she cannot cut her previous ties (Porphyria’s Lover 2).
“Paul Revere’s Ride” is a very well written poem and is a very extravagant poem. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was a very hard poem to read, but is very exploring into the world of war. Both poems were enjoyable to read and fun. As these poems show life before our time was very hard-fought and amazingly
Frost uses the metaphor of two distinct paths to represent two options in his life that he has to choose from. He uses vivid imagery within this metaphor to describe the differences and difficulties of these choices; the first path “having perhaps the better claim” (7) and the second “grassy and wanted wear” (8). Frost then chooses the less traveled path and ends the poem with the declaration that “that has made all the difference” (20). In addition, the paths opened themselves to Frost “in a yellow wood” (1), portraying that Frost has come to a crossroad in his life where he needs to pause and, in order to get any farther, also needs to make a choice between the two paths. The yellow represents both a need for an analytical and pensive pause, as well as the fraying and dying season as steps foot into a different one.
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
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
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. Using his carefully selected descriptions, Frost is able to bring the reader into the role of the traveler, and express what the traveler is seeing and feeling. The third stanza of the poem is a great example of this use of imagery, Frost writes, “He gives his harness bells a shake/ To ask if there is some mistake. / The only other sound's the sweep/ Of the easy wind and downy flake” (8-11). In this quote, Frost is able to bring to life the quiet beauty of a snowfall by describing the sound of the soft hush that falling snow creates.