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    In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” he uses imagery of the road to represent choices. This poem’s lesson can be used in life every day. The first stanza represents the idea that life has choices, the second and third stanzas represent the good and bad of the choices we make, and the persona of the poem chooses the harder choice that wanted wear. First, life has choices. Every day we have to make choices. Whether it be what to wear or what to eat for breakfast. Those are not very important

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    The speaker in Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is a conflicted person, and to me is a man of mystery. However, as the reader of this poem we are drawn in by the undergoing a life-changing decision. He is contemplating the direction in which he will lead his life and is using that of a fork in the road to base his future on. The speaker is impulsive and adventurous, the reason that he has chosen the less traveled path. I am picturing a middle-aged man who may be having a midlife crisis. Moreover

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    The poem my group and I chose to annotate was Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken". We chose this poem because it is one of the most widely recognized poems of all time. The assignment was a bit complex in my opinion, especially when it came to part two the write up part. Part 1 was a good experience being that it was a group assignment. I had a fantastic team, and we each shared a part in annotating the poem. We each had a role in the annotation of the poem, we took two parts of speech each to identify

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    In Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” we are never told specifically who the speaker is. When reading this poem, most people automatically assume that it is being told from a guy's perspective, but we have no indication of that being true. The only information that we are given is that he or she is in the woods, and has to make a decision on which path to take. He or she has come to a crossroads, and the path’s are splitting. Not knowing what stage of life he or she is in, there is a possibility

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    “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about a choice, and when we are faced with making a decision we have to choose one, but that also means that we have to give up on the other opportunity to do something else. That one decision can determine our entire lives. When the speaker chose “the one less traveled by,” the speaker says, “ has made all the difference.” The poem begins with a dilemma, the need to come up with a decision and solve the problem. When out walking, the speaker comes to a fork

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    challenges and decisions to make. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost, He demonstrates how the way one handles major difficult decisions, affects the outcome of life. The poem consists of 4 stanzas which each have a slightly different purpose to the poem; however, the first and second stanzas both have the same effect. Firstly, in the first stanza, Frost describes standing at an open road that splits into two separate paths: “two roads diverged in a yellow wood”. He goes on to say how

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    Introduction Robert Frost has made a poem named The Road Not Taken constructed of language features, conventions and stylistic features; these techniques help to convey main message of the poem being regret and provide the audience with a comfortable and smooth read. Language Features Robert Frost describes the life and decisions of a man who has not made some of the correct decisions throughout his life and would like to take some new unexplored paths. The use of language features communicate to

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    something important about life in a special way In the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the author uses a variety of phrases that contains symbolism. All of this symbolism also leads up to a very common theme that we must usually several times in our lives. First of all, this poem uses a lot of symbolism to reveal many things that also applies to us in our lives. To begin with, Robert Frost describes two (2) similar roads. One thing he says to support his is,"both that morning equally

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    The Road Taken and Not Taken Response I had to choose between playing a full-time summer sport or going on family vacations in the summer. Sports enriched my life in many ways such as creating more memories with my friends, allowing my pitching to improve, and gaining valuable team experience. Family vacations also could have changed my life as it allows for more family time, memories, and adventures. In the end, I chose to play a summer sport because it increased my games per year, practices per

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    In the poems, “Identity,” by Julio Noboa Polanco, and “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, the poems have some different techniques, and some similar techniques like the rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, stanzas, and the imagery. To begin with, the rhythms of the poems are different in many ways. The rhythm in the poems “Identity,” by Polanco, and “The Road Not Taken,” by Frost, the rhythms are stressing different syllables may times in the poems. In addition, the rhyme of the poems are different, in

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