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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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    Road Not Taken Tone

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    “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost relays the message that in life we, as the readers of the poem, have many decisions to make and how we choose to make those decisions, rules our future. “The Road Not Taken” is a metaphor for real life and in real life there are important decisions which, in some instances, can cause immense change. The symbolism in “The Road Not Taken” is the two paths which represent the life of a traveler and all his life decisions. In Frost’s poem, the reader comes to realize

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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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    The Road Not Taken Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, dramatizes the conflict between people and the choices they encounters throughout their life. During the poem’s introduction, the speaker stands at a fork in the road contemplating which path to choose. He ultimately travels “the better claim”(Frost 7) stating he will return to travel the other another day, though realistically doubting he will ever have to opportunity to do so. Yet if the traveler returns, he will do so with a twist:

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    Road Not Taken Tone

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    The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is an insightful poem, where he chose to represent his message by exploiting two roads as a symbol of a life decision. The author’s use of tone and literary devices such as metaphors and symbolism aid us in better grasping the message. The poem presents the obvious question of whether it is better to select a road in which many travel, or to select the road less traveled and discover it yourself. Consequently, the theme of the poem is about making decisions. The

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    that saying, his poem, “The Road Not Taken” encompasses what that phrase means. In summary, this poem is about a traveler who comes to what we know as a “fork in the road” and needs to decide which way to continue. After much thought, the traveler decides to choose the “road less traveled by.” However, the traveler seems to think he might be able to come back someday and walk down the other path. Deep down, the traveler knows he won’t be able to walk the other road and part of him regrets his

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    “The Road Not Taken” is one of the simplest poems written by Robert Frost. It has 4 stanzas, with 5 lines each. The poem presents a crossroads at which the author finds himself. He concludes that both roads are the same, with the same amount of fallen and untouched leaves. He, however, chooses one because it seems better to him. He then proceeds on this path, telling himself he might one day come back to the other. The reality is the opposite, unfortunately. He never does. The most attractive feature

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    Road Less Taken

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    The Road Less Taken reveals that while it might be best to follow the road most traveled so that you can compare experiences with others who have also, it is a more unique experience to take the road less traveled. The Road Less Traveled and All of Summer in a Day may seem to be along two different themes; however, there is one part that ties these to tales together

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    Road Not Taken Argument

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    When reading the poem, " The Road Not Taken," the argument can be made for both free will and choice. In the first stanza, the person is standing in the woods decided what path to take. The simplified version of the poem is that the speaker could be in a forest trying to decide what path to take in the forest. One path is seen as the road that the traveler can down while the other road is not traveled down or clear. The speaker does take his time and ponder which road he should take. The poem could 

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    The Road Not Taken Tone

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    One of Robert Frost’s most well know works: “The Road Not Taken”, is arguably one of the most controversial and misunderstood poems. By just reading the title, it seems fairly simple to assume that the poem is about making choices. When the speaker is presented the two roads he must make a choice as to which path he will take for he: “Could not travel both” (Line 2). As the speaker looks down both paths as far as he can, he deciphers back and forth from believing that the paths are equal to one

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