He admits that someday he will recreate the scene with a different outcome. He will claim that he took the less-traveled road. This is why I chose this poem, because he realizes that regret is inevitable. In Robert Frost's poem, “The Road Not Taken,” he shows that regardless of the choices people make, he knows that he will miss the experiences he might have encountered on the road not taken. However, I did dislike that it does not say, “When you come to a fork in the road, study the footprints and take the road less traveled,” Frost made the focus more complicated.
He takes him somewhere alone at an odd time of night, which is interesting because at ‘two o’clock’, everything will be deserted, with nobody around therefore Gatsby will expect Nick’s full attention. Gatsby, after ‘walking toward me’ (Nick), giving a mysterious sense, a ‘walk’, interpreted as a stroll could seem peculiar in dark surroundings, forecasting Gatsby wanting something. He orders Nick to ‘go to Coney Island’ with him. We could interpret this as Gatsby trying to persuade Nick to go to Coney Island in order for something in return; Gatsby may think he is doing Nick a favour by driving him away. We learn that Gatsby gets what he intended when Nick reassures Gatsby that he’ll ‘call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over’.
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At the beginning of the poem, the speaker regrets that at some point in his life he could not take two roads, and had to be limited to one road only. He tried his best to see what was ahead on one of the roads he could have taken, but there were limitations as the road turned and disappeared in the bushes. Frost uses a ABAAB, CDCCD, rhyme scheme: For instance, wood, both, stood, could, undergrowth from stanza one. In the second stanza, the poet emphasizes that the other road was grassy and less traveled and, therefore, he consciously took that road. He stresses that it was perhaps better, but, not much more than the other road.
The use of the word gray seems to make the whole scene seem more miserable, for he could have used the colour white to describe the frost, which even though is not an eventful colour itself, can still be very beautiful, but instead he chooses to go with a colour that is the least eventful. This is a clear link to how he is being very pessimistic towards his surroundings, for he clearly chooses the least attractive colour of the two. As the name suggests, the mood and setting of Neutral Tones is very similar to The Darkling Thrush, for Darkling Thrush is set in winter, the same as “That winter day” in Neutral Tones. Once again Hardy clearly shows his dislike of the winter season, for he uses the colour “Gray” again in order to describe the leaves that had fallen from a tree. He also uses personification and alliteration when giving a description of the soil or ground, claiming that “A few leaves lay on the starving sod” which is more clear evidence of his negativity towards winter, choosing to only see the bad sides of the season and not the more positive sides.
Frost’s narrative in ‘The Road Not Taken’ The Road Not Taken is about the speaker who stands in a forest conflicted by the decision of which path to take as he wants to go both ways despite both being equally the same. Later the speaker reflects on how he will take the other path another day but doesn’t sound convinced by this as there can be no going back in life. In the first stanza the speaker uses imagery when describing the wood to be ‘yellow’ this creates the scene of it being autumn and the idea of leaves changing colours which enforces the idea of having to make a decision as nothing stays the same. The idea of leafs falling could be a metaphor for the person’s life as they are at the fall of their life perhaps a midlife crisis which is why they may not have time to go back later and choose the other path, as time is running out for them. Also the speaker seems to be distressed as of which road to go down as he stood for a ‘long’ time contemplating which path to go down as he could not be ‘one traveller’ this makes the reader acknowledge that you can’t be at two places at once and that sometimes you have to sacrifice opportunities.
Even in Shakespeare’s time, dense forests remained largely impenetrable and dark places. Heavy woods like the Black Forest of Europe were considered great places of fear and possibly of dark magic Frequently, Shakespeare would set one of these transformative areas on the edge of a large city, allowing his characters to easily escape from a rigid, law-based City World into a nature-run world nearby. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, four young characters are denied the marriages they wish in the city, and escape into the forest to hide from their families. Yet instead of providing a safe haven, the Green World of the play is in tremendous chaotic upheaval. The four young lovers become caught in the plots of the fairy rulers of the forest, and cannot get out until each falls in love with the correct person, accomplished by a fairy charm.
The setting in The Road Not Taken is in a forest in the fall season. This is determined by the first line “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”. There are two roads, perhaps one is gravel and dirt and is worn. The other road is grassy and has not been taken before. I take the line in the poem “because it was grassy and wanted wear” as a temptation or choice the writer has faced before but has never taken.
First, in the opening quatrain, the speaker compares himself to a tree in winter, a tree whose “yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold” (lines 2–3). Beginning this poem on a somber note, this complex metaphor goes beyond the traditional association between winter and old age to create the image of an elderly person whose thin arms and legs (boughs, or limbs) shake in the cold. The metaphor suggests that death is natural. Next, in the second quatrain, the speaker compares himself to the twilight of the day, that time of day just before dark, “after sunset fadeth in the west” (6). This metaphor suggests that the speaker is very near the end of his life because “by and by black night” (7) will take away all remaining light.
The traveller is hesitant about which route to take, and is sad to miss out on one road, “And sorry I could not travel both”, “I shall be telling this with a sigh”, he wants to take both roads, but knows he can only take one, and he will probably never return to the fork in the road. Robert Frost knew it was unlikely for him to be able change his mind, “I doubted if I should ever come back.” The traveller is hesitant and takes some time to make the decision, “long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could”. It is clearly a hard choice to make The road less travelled is described as “grassy and wanting wear”. Robert Frost is using personification in this stanza, making the road appear