Very few dare to take up challenges and choose a less traveled road. Hence, they often follow the less risky and more acceptable decisions. Generally, people are confused when they have to make a choice because it has far-reaching consequences. Though his decision to take the less-traveled road has made all the difference. The man then says that he will be telling with a ‘ sigh‘ someday in the future, still thinking what life would have been if he had chosen the more traveled road. Though he is not sure if ever again he would pass by it because one road leads to another and leaves no chance to change one’s decision, so he won’t get a chance to go back. He chooses the less traveled, grassy road because it needs wear and leaves the other road for some other day.
The man stands there contemplating, and feels sad that he is unable to travel on both roads as both of them seem to be rewarding. The two roads in fact represent two alternative ways of life. The poet uses the fork in the road as a metaphor for the choices a person makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a fork, in the road he is traveling upon. The poet’s experience becomes symbolic of human experience in all ages and countries. This source is credible because the information comes from a book that has published many volumes.It is a great lyric that records a personal experience of the poet, but from the personal and the individual the poet soon rises to the universal and the general. I really like this source because it is very thorough and provides a plethora of evidence to help support my paper.
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I can also use the themes to argue that Frost doesn’t take a side with individuality but is just trying to say that life is full of choices that can make a difference. This source is useful to show how Frost’s life and his time period affected the poems meaning. The historical context of the poem is World War I and urbanization. The source also shows how the poem has contradictory diction. The rhyme scheme is identified to be abaab. It highlights the themes of the poems as individualism, and choices and consequences. This source provides a biography of Frost from his birth to death. There is a link to a page about the author, and the author seems credible. I can also uses this source to help support how this poem represents life and its choices. I can use evidence from this source to help support how Frost uses nature to convey the speaker’s ambiguity. This source is very accurate and highlights the main points. The source explains how Frost uses imagery relating to nature, metaphors, and lists some common themes in his poetry. This source lists out some common elements of Frost’s poetry. Understanding the Poetry of Robert Frost: An Introductory Guide to Analyzing Frost’s Poems. This source analyzes certain phrases of diction that would help support my claim. Also, this source perfectly helps support my claim that Frost doesn’t support conformity but says that life is full of choices. The layout of information is also very organized. It also provides the main point or claim of the poem.
This source provides why Frost wrote this poem and a stanza by stanza summary of the poem. “Robert Frost’s Tricky Poem: Analysis of ‘The Road Not Taken.
This source is very credible because it came from Student Resource Center. My overall opinion of the article is that it is an O. This academic journal does not provide much evidence to support the claim of my paper. This source is useful to support that the poem as a whole is a metaphor for life.Įven though this source is useful in a way, I don’t think it is such a great source. He also argues whether the speaker’s choice of road actually makes the difference in the speaker’s future. He also shows how Frost’s poem tends to be full of contradictions. However, the poem as a whole is a metaphor. In this article, Dan Brown argues that the poem does not contain any metaphors or similes. Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ Analysis
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