A Road Not Taken Chris Smith ENG 125 Carolyn Karas 20 December 2013 A Road Not Taken What are choices? Choices are the avenues used to aiding the process of decision making because every situation has multiple outcomes. Neglecting to make conscious and educated decisions, we will fail to gain strength and limit our individual growth. Robert Frost’s “A Road Not Taken” provides us as readers with a perfect depiction of what struggles life may have in store for each of us. His poem captivates his readers or listeners and sends them on a fictional road that describes how each situations outcome may be altered by the choices being made and how a conclusion will be different every time.
Various images aid the reader in the depiction of the brilliant theme in this outstanding poem. Furthermore, the numerous effective metaphors used in “I, Icarus” compare to the subtle message the writer attempts to get across. This is why a thorough understanding of these essential poetic devices is absolutely crucial in order to interpret the meaning of the poem: reaching for your dreams and going where nobody has gone before. In conclusion, Wayne Gretzky once said: “You will always miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t
Christian Biggers Beginning Again The “Beginning Again” is a free verse poem. This poem has a lot of great symbolism in it and is really deep. It’s not written for a child’s mind, one could say, but rather an intellectual’s. I liked this poem because it forces you to think, the reader has to read closely to find out what Franz Wright is really saying. The first line of the poem, “’If I could stop talking, completely cease talking for a year, I might begin to get well’”, tells us that Franz most likely gets in trouble with his mouth a lot.
‘Spring’s here, Winter’s not gone’ – Discuss ways in whichThomas presents uncertainty in ‘But these things also’ Uncertainty is a a huge theme that runs throughout the entirity of Thomas’ poetry, particularly in the poem ‘But these things also’. He does this by using a variaty of techniques suchas his choice of imagery, language and also the lack of rhyme. Thomas used this lack of a rhyme scheme to show the reader that he felt poetry shouldn’t be twisted to fit a certain mould. Thomas often used nature as a topic for his poems, because as a poet he felt he could relate to the uncertainty of it, and this becomes clear to the reader within ‘But these things also’. Immediately as a reader we are thrown into the theme of uncertainty due to the ambigious title.
The poem has no specific rhyme scheme it is a free form poem. “Love letter to Albuquerque schools,” Expresses many emotions, in which when they preformed it showed through their voices; their voices were angry. A metaphor that was one of my favorite said, “We're buried under academic letters and standards. Tests that tell you what kind of person you will be. We're
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 Path of Least Resistance In life we face difficult decisions and it takes a strong person to avoid the path of least resistance to instead make choices which will lead us through a more difficult path in life. I personally can relate to this theory. The poem entitled “The Road Not Taken” (hereinafter “the poem”) demonstrates this also. The poem further proves this to be true in the world. First I would like to provide a brief summary of what the poem is about and its main idea.
Typically, I would go through and just read a piece of writing without taking the time to really look into the meaning/purpose and message. But this project really taught me to not be as oblivious and what to pay attention to. With that, I was able to take address a few learning outcomes; which among these are, Language and the Individual, Language and Social Relations, and Language and Belief. Instantly, I knew that I wanted to incorporate a poem when doing this assignment, but I had no clue or idea what one to pick. I read through tons and tons of poems until I found The Road Not Taken.
The Great Depression ultimately changed the relationship between the government and its people. Irony is used in the poem in which the title of the poem “The Unknown Citizen” engulfs the motive and meaning of the poem. Throughout the poem he uses irony phrases such as “in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word” and “For In everything he did he served the Greater Community” (Clugston, 2010, Lines 3 & 5). To the state or society of his era, he seems to be happy as long as he is not different from any others. However, the unknown citizen might not be doing all those in order to serve the Greater Community, because the unknown citizen knows that by doing so, he is secured and advantages will be collected on his side.
For this assignment I chose ‘Fire and Ice’ by Robert Frost. I don’t really read poetry much, but he was the most familiar name and Ive read one of his poems before. So I googled ‘Poems by Robert Frost’ and the poem ‘Fire and Ice’ was listed. I read it over and I decided I liked it, at first I didn’t fully analyze it but I got the impression that this poem had a good theme, maybe it was the simplicity of the poem combines with elements like fire and ice, both opposites, and the theme of world destruction. So after analyzing, the poem myself and researching a couple analysis’s by differencing authors, the theme began to unravel.