If we want an example of how this is so, we first need to look at the title. instead of saying "The Road Taken", he says "The Road Not Taken". This implies that instead of focussing on the road he did take, he is somewhat 'haunted' by the road the he did not take, and the wrong choice he made. As we move into the poem, we see that the Frost says that he is "sorry I could not travel both", showing that is conflicted, and that both of the paths have appeal. He goes on to say that he "looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth".
When the speaker made his Inner Conflicts 3 choice, and began traveling down his chosen road in life, he assured himself he would someday come back and travel the other road as well. He realizes that life has been completely affected by his choice and he seems aware that his life would have turned out completely different had he taken the other route. "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference". All this appears to be merely a thought by the speaker. He has used a “yellow wood” with paths as an analogy for being at a mental defining moment (DiYanni, 2007, p.808).
September 9, 2012 The two poems When I Have Fears by John Keats and Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow have many differences and similarities in there poetic techniques and situations. Keats and Longfellow’s poems have an abundance of diversity which makes each one unique. However, both reveal that the subject is about sadness and death. In Longfellow’s piece, he writes that there wasn’t much to blame that kept him from what he would’ve wanted to accomplish in his early life. It feels as if this middle-aged poet did have a sorrow for something important that he might have lost.
Most people believe that "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost was written to inspire people to not follow the majority and to branch out and be different. However, the poem was actually written to gently tease one of Frost's good friends, Edward Thomas. Frost and Thomas would take walks in the woods together, and Thomas would take Frost down one path and later regret not choosing a different path. This could possibly lead someone to believe that Frost is actually ridiculing the action of regretting decisions. Considering this pert nit background information, the poem's meaning could be quite contrary to popular belief.
Sophie Cannon March 9, 2014 English 133 Misconceptions of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” The meaning of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” can be interpreted several ways. However, Frost’s intent of the poem is often lost or misinterpreted. More times than not, this poem is printed on graduation cards with an attached message to “size the day” and “take the road less traveled.” These interpretations have lead this poem to become a cliché and steer away from Frost’s actual purpose for the poem. “The Road not Taken” is filled with different literary devices that uncover an alternative meaning of the poem. The opening line of the poem states that the speaker is standing before “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost line 1).
It would not be able to cut back his hours and taking a class that is not required would take a lot of his time. The Study Skills class requires note taking in his current classes. This would allow him to put more attention on the note taking and possible less understanding of the material for the specific class. Which could possibly distract him and lose his focus. However, Study Skills comes with many important reasons to keep the class.
His choice was to spare fellow motorists. After analyzing the poem, I began to relate Stafford’s poem to that of the path of life. Stafford uses metaphors, symbolism, and personification to point to the decisions we are faced with and the consequences that come with those decisions. In this particular poem, the consequence is death, whether it is the death of the fawn or the possible death of a future motorist. One of the first things that stood out to me when looking at the poem was how metaphorical the poem is to life’s path.
The character tries to tell through this poem that it is all on people and the choices they made. But it is for sure that whatever the choice they have to spend their life on it weather it’s good or bad. So characters of the poem discuss how people chose their option (Shurr, 2003, 584-590). They exist, but they cannot do anything if someone makes a wrong choice. Alternatively, the main character of “A Worn Path’ is Phoenix Jackson.
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.
The aforementioned ideas are conveyed through the use of poetic techniques such as rhetorical questions, metaphors, visual imagery, repetition and The first paragraph of the poem presents the hazards of a journey. The imagery in ‘the very dead of winter’ evokes a sense of death and despair, and highlights the hopelessness that the magi feel in their lives. Use of tactile imagery heightens their struggle and temptation of turning back to their old way of life as they begin to doubt their decision of embarking on this journey. “In ‘the summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, and the silken girls bringing sherbet”, then the camel men grumbling and cursing”. This line portrays a clear picture of the life the Magii were accustomed to and reflects their desire to turn back from the journey.