Comparing The Road Not Taken And Seasons Changing

     In “The Road not Taken” Frost speaks of a time in his life where he had to make a choice, a choice of which direction his life was about to go: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood / And sorry I could not travel both” (1-2). “Mother to Son” also speaks of life in a metaphorical way, but as a staircase rather than two paths: “Well, son, I’ll tell you / Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” (1-2).

Robert Frost was a famous poet and educator born in San Francisco in 1874 who made an impact on the literature known today. After high school, he attended college where he studied literature and poetry. During college, Frost began writing his own poems and in 1894, he had successfully published his first poem. Despite his many accomplishments, Frost faced a major downfall that could not be fulfilled by his success. One might expect that publishing his first poem might be a time of pride and joy, however, Frost was fighting his own battles of depression and mental illness.

The analysis of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost has been up for debate since the poem release in 1916. It is known to be one of the most frequently misinterpreted poems of all time, and even Robert Frost himself has said the poem is “tricky” to comprehend (The). When analyzing this poem many readers tend to focus only on the last lines of the poem and get caught in a trap of selective-interpretation. Quite a few people after reading Robert Frost’s poem firmly conclude that this poem is about non-conformity and individualism, however, that is not the case. Robert Frost’s poem is meant to be analyzed line by line for a complete interpretation. Readers can conclude that the poem represents making choices in life, but that is not the

Frost’s poem has a great sense of irony towards the end, “I shall be telling this with a sigh / somewhere ages and ages hence” (16-17). The irony is that while he’s making his choice he is already anticipating how he will tell the story in the future, almost adding a sense of drama

Discovering more of Frost's past life, it's no surprise that most of his poems revolve around the five stages of grief and loss. In understanding the process of grief , the poem "The Road Not Taken" seems to implement the stage of acceptance. In the first stanza, we are approached with two decisions "in a yellow wood", yellow meaning intellect, energy and wisdom . While Wood meaning tree, implying growth or a rapid increase in something. Tree's usually turn yellow in the fall, the season fall meaning death or dying, typically referring to a tragedy. Already knowing a positive decision will be made based on a rapid increase in death, we then turn to the next turning point "Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for the passing there had worn them about the same...".

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.

In this poem, I believe the theme is that you have to jump at an opportunity when you get it, or you may never get that opportunity again. Moving on to the tone of the poem, I believe that it is wistful, and that the speaker might be looking back on his days, and realizing that he taking the other road might have made all of the difference in his life. There is very good diction in this poem, as some words express Frost’s feeling more than other’s would’ve. For example, in the line “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” (1), Frost really emphasizes the two roads separating from each other. In another line “In leaves no step had trodden black” (12), trodden is a more appropriate than another word such as crushed or pulverized, because it is the past form of trod, or to step in something, and gives an image of human feet stepping on the freshly fallen leaves.

A first look at The Road Not Taken shows the narrator’s cheery story of going against the flow of society and deciding to take the path that the narrator wants. Despite the pessimistic outlook on life, Frost’s poems emit life’s reality. Robert Frost’s outlook on life is truthful and not a fantasy.

To begin with, the authors convey different messages with each of their poems. Each focuses on the topic and characteristics of nature, but they have alternative messages in regards to the connotation of nature. In the poem “Seasons Changing” the authors focus on the changing of seasons and beauty of the experience of all four seasons as they state, “As the colorful leaves go, you can enjoy hot cocoa”(Mottley, Faychak and Collins 9-10). In other words, the authors share of the

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, is about someone choosing between two paths in life that have been laid out for them. One is easier than the other, while the other more compelling and mysterious. In this poem, it uses the setting of someone traveling in the woods, finding two different paths to take. One of the paths has been traveled on more, while the other has not. The poem altogether talks about the effect of what making different choices in life has in the long run.

A. Frost uses the two paths symbolically as a choice to be made between decisions having to be made.

One very effective method alike from Shakespeare, that Frost uses, is Denotation and Connotation, which in conjunction with symbolism give the poem richness and color. Symbolism is used, when the author wants to suggest a certain mood, rather than blasting it out, the author hints the readers throughout symbols.Denotation is what the dictionary says a word means, and connotation, is what a word can make you think of. For example, the denotation of the word “Road” is: A long, narrow stretch with a smoothened or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle or carriage. While the connotation of this word, is what you choose to do with your life, are you going to choose the path everybody takes, or are you going to forge your own path in life. So rather than just telling us that the two roads

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

To begin with, the poems “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Depression” by Lena Lopes, Aleena Frith, Emilia Lopes are different in many ways. Each of the tones in each poem have two different emotions. The Robert Frost poem has a pleasant and overall happy tone, but the other poem has a depressed and empty feeling to it. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, it states, “Two roads diverged in a wood , and I - I took the one less traveled by”(Frost 18-19). This shows that the poem was inspiration and positive outcome came at the end of the poem. This poem compels readers to assume that it is negative from the words that it uses but, it has a very positive tone at the ending of the poem. In addition, in the poem “Depression” by Lena Lopes, Aleena Frith, and Emilia Lopes, it states, “ To make it passed all the pain”(Lopes, Frith, Lopes 12). This line of the poem shows that the poem is very slow moving, and very painful, depressing for the reader to read. The poem's tone was the opposite of apathy, it showed a lot of emotion. To conclude, both of the poem have dissimilar tones because of the meanings of the poems, and how they present the poem.