Caminante No Hay Camino Analysis

Just as Conrad conveys the creation of one’s own path subconsciously in Marlow, the poem “Road not taken” by Robert Frost explores this idea, represented my literal paths and an alternate, unspoken third path. The metaphor of the physical journey shows the moral growth in the protagonist. The poem is written in first person, giving it a very personal and reflective tone, expressing a pivotal moment in the persona’s life. The use of andante, the flowing rhythm establishes a conversational tone. The rhyme scheme is simple and effective throughout the poem, however, it changes in the final stanza. By implementing a new scheme here, the final thought of reflection is emphasized. The "less traveled" road is symbolic of the gamble of choosing a more individual path in life, the protagonist’s own road. This can be compared to the quote by Antonio Machado, “Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.” This quote exemplifies the fact that walking the path is more important than

The Road is about a father and a young boy who take on the south after a huge catastrophe hits the world. The father and boy in the story are never named, which makes it very hard to read. They have many hardships like finding food, supplies, and shelter. They come along many different things like abandoned houses, people, and terrifying landscapes. When the father and young boy come upon the house and different people, the reader is excited because you never knew what was going to happen to the main characters, and when something good happened, their success was your success. Even though they battle through these hardships they find a way through it. The Road has a deep explanation of the road, the father’s dream, and the different people the man and the boy meet along the way. The author, Cormac McCarthy, uses imagery to make the descriptions vivid and clear which adds to the intensity of the novel.

Poems can have many different meanings, some darker and deeper than others, and are concealed in a puzzle of metaphors and figurative language. “The Road Not Taken” written by Robert Frost, “The Road at The End” written by Carl Sandburg, “Song of the Open Road” written by Walt Whitman, and “The Journey” written by Mary Oliver all have different meanings than first perceived. “Song of the Open Road” depicts positive feelings in the protagonist. “The Road Not Taken” is a fairly neutral point of view of life as it is neither positive nor negative. “The Journey” can be categorized as neutral as well, but has hints of negativity, and as for “The Road at The End,” it takes a dark twist as “The End” is perceived as the end of life.

The second stanza begins with a time shift from reminiscing of the past to the present. The mood of the poem also makes a dramatic shift from happy to solemn. “Today, the road all runners come/ Shoulder-high we bring you home.” (“Housman” 5-6). Even though it is not clearly stated that the young runner died, the title of the poem makes it obvious. The “road” is a metaphor for death. It is a path that we are all going down. The

“The Road Not Taken” is a poem about how it is important to make a choice in life. In the beginning of the poem, the man is hating that he had to be stuck with the road he chose instead of being able to take both paths. The man tried to look farther down the paths that he could’ve chosen to go down, but the man was only able to see to the point that the road curved and was no longer visible. Stanza # 2, the man indicated that he took the road he felt looked better and could’ve been better because

For someone to be on the road, people usually assume that they have lost hope in life, or that they were not that determine to maintain a place in our social class.Those who decided to live on the road do it for a different reason, reason that are either a push or pull factor. Someone who has helicopter parents, or having a difficult time trying to fit into society can find a reason to venture out and find self. Someone who felt like they no longer have a purpose in life, can find it by going on the road, because no one know you better than yourself. When writing a story of your life, do not let anyone else hold the pen. Just like the north star, which helped slaves find their way from slavery and captivity. In order to find true self, risk must be taken. While life on the road can seem like an act of avoidance of reality and problems, it can help someone find a purpose for life and their true self, therefore I believe that life on the road, is helpfully for those who are struggling with problems.

The Road Not Taken centers on the concept of choice. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”, tells us that the speaker has to make a choice on which path to take and the other must be left behind. This represents the many different choices in our life and it lets us readers reflect on the significant choices we have made. You only live life once and there are many decisions in which you only have one shot at as stated in the poem, “Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

A road symbolizes a path in which each human must take. A person can choose to sacrifice what they have or choose a path of greediness and selfishness. But there is always a consequence for choosing the good path, as seen in The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The father is the one that must make a decision for both him and his son- be a "good guy" and give up everything in hope of surviving, or be consumed by evil which would inevitably create an unrecognizable man. Humans are flawed in a sense where their goal is either only advantageous to themselves, or in a senseless way for other people. Was the father being selfless and giving everything for the life of his son or keeping his son alive in this disastrous and dangerous world because he couldn’t go on without him? Was the father being selfish or selfless? Every time he told the son to "carry the fire", he wanted him to keep the only shred of humanity and hope left. Someone has to carry that fire, the memory of what was, all the good things that life had, and all of the reasons for mankind to survive. It’s a choice between being a thinker of the new world, or a hunter of the old. Cormac McCarthy accomplished showing the idea of

The setting takes place in an apocalyptic future where a road is no longer a means to get from one place to another, but is a remembrance of the past. The roads are one of the few things that couldn’t be destroyed by whatever disaster destroyed the earth, and the father and son spent most of their time on a road leading to the coast. As a place for travel, the road is a place of both peace and danger. In the novel it comes to symbolize the drive to

The road is the main setting of the book. The papa and son always go on the road to go north hoping to find something better. The road symbolizes them to move forward and keep surviving. The road is full of danger but at the end it was worth it because they found a beach. So it symbolizes the journey is tough and hard but soon you'll find a happy place. The road is a sign of good because it quoted ¨What happened to them? I don't know exactly. That's a good question. But the roads are still there. Yes. (McCartney 22).¨ After all the natural disasters, the road is the only thing standing in good

The Road is a grim book set in an even more grim place. With the fall of civilization, the struggle for the human race is to preserve what it means to be human and not to get caught up in surviving by any means necessary. The magic of The Road is that even in such a world filled with unspeakable violence and fulfilled taboo, the reader is never as far removed from the characters in the book. Through the use of the battle for humanity and taboo, the reader is connected to the book at an uncomfortably close distance.

The Road being defined as a dystopian post-apocalyptic novel, so-called postmodern condition, psychoanalytic criticism, which focuses on some of the basic concepts of this approach, like Oedipus complex, fears, death and personality theory (id, ego, and superego). In the light of psychoanalytic approach, The Road can be read as a novel about a boy growing up in a devastated and barren post- apocalyptic world. Which reveals that having a lost mother and facing the dead wherever he goes with his father, the boy struggles with overcoming his fears of death and loss. “If you died, I would want to die too” -Psychoanalytic Approach to

This is very symbolic because the road seems everlasting and unchanging. In an apocalyptic world this follows the theme that everything is dull. This can also relate to the world today that we are just traveling on a straight line. Many critics state, “All, it seems, is an eternal middle; there is nothing to anticipate, and the past is what haunts the father, reminding him of a world he can never get back” (Rambo 9). This means that as

My own poem expand on the idea of roads representing life. It stresses the importance of all the decisions the person is going to make in their life time that would define the road the person takes in life. Currently in the world multiple deals or agreements are being reach. The Iranian Deal and the Uber deal with New York City are just few of the deals being work on. When I wrote in line 7, “Each road leads to a different set of events” I would want that line to reflect these events. In the Iranian Deal there are many paths that the agreement or the disagreement of the deal would lead to, which would unfold for each a different set of events because of all the unknown obstacles. The Uber deal with New York City would permit Uber to have

The Road is a story where is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the date and location is unnamed. The author of the novel Cormac McCarthy doesn 't describe why or how the disaster has demolish the earth. But after reading the novel, I can sense that the author wanted to present a case of mystery and fear to the unknown to the reader. By the author 's exclusion I think that the story gains a better understanding of what the author wanted to express to the reader. An expression of a man and his son surviving in a post-apocalyptic setting.