The Road Not Taken By Edgar Allan Poe And Robert Frost

In Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” we can see how many different aspects of life decision making comes in the form of symbolisms. “Two roads diverge in a yellow wood. And sorry I couldn’t not travel both” This showing use how unwilling the character is of not making a right decision, this is centered on how life can come with certain choices one must make but is very unclear on how to. People always want to have everything at once but it is to show that it is impossible to have it all at the same time. The contrast completely with William Stafford “Traveling Through the Dark” where even if a

?The Road Not Taken? (1916) tells of someone faced with two of life?s decisions however only one can be chosen. Whichever road is taken will be final and will determine the direction that their life takes. Frost drives this poem by a calm and collective narrative, spoken by the traveler of the diverged roads. Who is speaking with himself trying to convince himself of which road is the better choice. Frost wrote this poem using standard, modern language.

“Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, and “Dreams of Suicide” by William Meredith are the three poems that connect together in several different ways. Not only do the poems link together, but the authors do as well. This paper will present biographical information about the authors, symbols throughout the poems, and the literary elements the authors chose to use in the poems. It will also explain how the symbols and literary elements that are used help emphasize the themes that the authors have chosen.

also tells how it took him a while to decide which road to take and after a lot of deciding he

Edgar Allen Poe did not just create poems - he created an entire genre of literature. Among the sweetly composed rhythms of his words, a strong culture of gothic literature began to grow. Poe is to this day perhaps the most famous figure of gothic culture. However, what gave rise to such a fame was not without its price; Poe suffered greatly during his lifetime. Mourning over lost loves and the severed soul of his wife, much of his poetry seems like a grievous eulogy. In response to his frequent dwelling on death, supernatural elements are woven throughout his works, giving a glint of hope that he is not alone. Loneliness, as is so poignantly expressed in The Raven, is what in fact drives Edgar Allen Poe to create the works of literary genius he does.

Robert Frost, wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken.” This poem is about having to choose from two very similar, yet different paths in life. In the poem, Frost elaborates on each path comparing and contrasting them from one another. For example, he states “no step had trodden black” in the third stanza, and that is comparing the two paths together because he’s basically indicating that they’re the same. The extended metaphor in the poem is when he comes across the two roads, and also the deciding moment when he chooses one.

A legacy is known as the mark you leave on the people who surround you and how they will remember you. My legacy that I would like to leave on the world will differ from every decision that I make throughout my life. There’s a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. This poem shows how every decision that you make throughout your life can affect your legacy. Each decision that I make today can greatly affect my reputation in the future.

After reading Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, I am in agreement with the poem being about life choices and deciding which path to take. I am also in agreement with literary critic, David Orr and the poem having a much, more complicated and serious meaning. We all have specific choices in life for a multitude of decisions and opportunities. It is those choices that can bring success or failure, advantages or disadvantages, and safety or danger. There were a couple of passages that stood out assisting me to come to the conclusion that this poem was about depression and suicide.

Which talks about a happy love story with a deadly ending.They meet and fall in love then the wife dies in a house of fire. Robert Frost wrote “Fire and Ice” and “A Road Not Taken” Fire and Ice is about how he thinks the world may end. “A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about all the different paths you can take in the outcomes they make.

In “Mowing” and “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost uses the beauty of nature and descriptive, vivid words to hear, as well as see within the poems. His words are not extravagant yet simply thoughtful. Robert frost uses his technique “Sound of Sense” in his poetry. This technique is used to emphasize the natural world and human determination.

In many writer's and poet’s creations , there is a debate of does their work have an affinity for either the light and benevolence element, or the dark and macabre aspect. Robert Frost is a poet that ignites numerous debates and arguments on this subject. A point that should be pointed out is why does Frost’s work spark these debates, and the answer is because of conflict and duality. Robert Frost’s work does not venture into one world, and lives out the rest of poem’s life . His work conflicts with itself in many conflicting and opposite aspects. Frost’s work are a world of duality consisting of light vs dark, life vs death, and truth vs fiction.

As with everything else, literature changes with the times. We can track history through books, poems, and other literary works. As time has gone on some authors and poets have been more comfortable with establishing new literary norms while other prefer to maintain traditional forms. Between World War I and World War II the literary world was in a turbulent time. Authors and poets spoke out against social and political struggles. This can be specifically seen in the works of William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost, who both held on to literary tradition to communicate their struggle with the changing world around them.

Robert Frost was a poet of the 19th and 20th century and his work had a great influence on the way poets of the future would write. Frost influenced poets through his work that contained simple ideas with deeper meanings. These ideas allowed for a different view on the world.

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Death, be not proud” by John Donne are two poems with different meanings but share one of many of the same themes. Although the poems share different meanings as a whole, the reader can conclude the same common theme from both of these poems. Even though the reader may think the poems lack a same common theme, the theme is revealed by the end of both these poems. These two poems share the same theme of hopes and dreams. As the reader explores the same common theme of these two poems, the literary devices of personification, imagery, alliteration, metaphor, and irony can be seen throughout these poems as well.

We all will hit a point in our lives where we have to make some decisions, some more than others, and Robert Frost alludes to this in a relatable way in his poem “The Road Not Taken”. Frost uses some great images to describe the situation the narrator is in. He also lets you visualize the thoughts and actions that the narrator is making. There are so many ways you can tell what Frost is saying in this poem by taking a close look into his many uses of symbolism.