The Road Not Taken

Journeys, whether physical, spiritual or emotional are a complex concept to fully understand. Often these types of journeys are intertwined together and are employed by poets in their poems to provoke readers into new understandings of themselves and others. These notions are explored through Robert Frost’s poems “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Acquainted With The Night”. Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Frost was a deep twentieth century writer that affiliated his world with his poetry and hence achieved unparalleled popularity and critical acclaim. Frost composed numerous works

Authors write poetry for many reasons including to prove a point, share life stories or to just make the reader think. Robert Frost is a great example of a poet influenced by his experiences. These influences show up in most of his poetry, but especially in “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening”, and “Birches”. Moving to the New England region the nature and people helped him become a poet of worldly fame.

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost describes the dilemma in decision making, generally in life each individual has countless decisions to make and those decisions lead to new challenges, dilemmas and opportunities. In Frost’s poem, the careful traveler observes the differences of each path, one is bent and covered in undergrowth (Frost 5) and the other is grassy and unworn (Frost 8). In the end he knows he can only choose one of the paths, after much mental debate he picks the road less traveled and is well aware that he will likely never return to experience the other. By examining Frost 's "The Road Not Taken," we get a deeper understanding of

The Use of Literary Devices in Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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.

What is it about a person walking alone in the woods that can be so meaningful and powerful? Weather its fifteen lines or five pages the reader can gain many different observations and mindsets to overcome obstacles this life throws at you. Eudora Welty and Robert Frost display this in their own unique ways wile portraying meaning in some similar and some very different ways, when writing Welty’s “A Worn Path” and Frost’s “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening”. Anyone can tell you that different authors will approach similar plots in different ways, and that there are multiple lessons to learn from any story or poem. To say that themes and lessons overlap from story to story would be obvious as well. However, the strategies and techniques these authors use to approach the meaning of their passage, is what makes these two authors unique. Robert Frost takes a simple and straight forward approach with a poem that reaches out to anyone loosing motivation, and begins to guide them in the right direction. Where Eudora Welty tends to take the more sophisticated approach and go more in depth with the story, motivating different people in different ways. Both of these passages use the walk through the woods as a metaphor of life and the speakers are reminders on how to go about it.

In the article Ford summarizes the main ideas in Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Ford explains how there are many meanings to the poem. Throughout this poem, Ford is giving his opinions on what he thinks about Frost’s poem. Also, he explains how there could be many more meanings beneath the surface symbols that Frost presents. Ford proves his ideas and shows what he thinks about the symbols in the poem.

In the early 1920s Robert Lee Frost wrote one of his most intriguing poems, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” in 1922 which was later published in 1923. The poem, simply put, being about a man walking through the woods on a snowy evening admiring the surroundings. However, at a closer look, Frost’s poem is a lot more meaningful than just a story about a patch of snow on some bark, it is a story about nature and isolation. It involves a lot of emotions, themes, symbols, and unique writing styles that make it one of Frost’s most galvanizing

The four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Robert Frost, is well known for his picturesque portrayal of rural lifestyle, focusing mainly on the New England region of the United States. “The Road Not Taken”, published in 1916 is one of his earliest written and most highly praised works. It is considered a masterpiece of American Literature and its content is frequently studied by high school and college students to this day. The poem is a closed frame narrative type consisting of four stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ABAAB. While being the most popular of the numerous poems written by Robert Frost, it has also been one of the most misinterpreted and openly interpreted poems of his

The poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost is about the speaker walking near the woods while snowing. Though deceptive in length because of the feeling of a dream or deep sleep, the poem is rather short with only 16 lines. Ultimately, Frost creates a tension throughout the whole poem between a near-silent sleep or dream state and inclination to face reality. The readers are being drawn into sleep with the speaker’s response to the woods and tone of serenity, yet always with a harsher disposition to confront reality.

Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” was written in 1922 then later published in 1923. In the poem, the speaker expresses his feelings and thoughts of the woods during the darkest night of the year. The speaker and his horse makes a random stop in a certain area of the woods. The speaker seemed very interested in the scenery of that part of the woods. Although the speaker wants to stay, he has to keep his promise and continue on. Frost uses personification, imagery, and alliteration to express the feelings and moods from the snowy night in the woods.

“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”.

The two essential elements are tone and mood. In the poem, ‘The road not taken’, Frost expresses a reflective tone about how he chose the path that was ‘less travelled by’ which led him to thinking about the possibility he left behind. The quote, ‘… and that has made all the difference’ demonstrates this. It also signifies how he regret taking the path that wasn’t right for him and having to show his braveness throughout the journey of his life. The mood as a reader is empowered because Frost chose a different path from others which inspires us to take risks and step out of our comfort zone. Not only that, but it also teaches us a lesson to take control of our own decisions and desires when making a choice in life. The poem itself expresses the different possibilities that we can achieve in our life throughout the journey. Therefore, different roads can lead to different results and how people accomplish it in life.

The poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” by Robert Frost is about the speaker walking near the woods while snowing. Though deceptive in length because of the feeling of a dream or deep sleep, the poem is rather short with only 16 lines. Ultimately, Frost creates a tension throughout the poem between a near-silent sleep or dream state and inclination to face reality. The readers are being drawn into the speaker’s response to the woods and tone of serenity, yet always reminded of the contrary, harsher disposition to confront reality.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost is a contemporary piece dealing with the typical human desire for escape. Whether this desire is manifested in avoidance of work, school or simply a relief from the mundane repetitiveness of everyday life this want is present in all humans. Throughout this poem Frost depicts and suggests that the "woods" are his means of escape from the "village", from society, and Frost conveys this by his respectful and almost wondrous diction when describing and referring to, the forest and the nature surrounding it. This poem also clearly