Jane Horrocks

Robert Frost had difficult time periods in his life. Frost lost his first born to suicide, his second born later developed a mental illness, his third born died in her late 20’s, and his last born, Elinor, died a few weeks after being born. A high school sweet heart refused to marry Frost until she finished school and many business opportunities failed for Robert Frost. The poet, Robert Frost, expressed these hard times in his poetry. Many decisions were made by Frost for him to experience these

I chose to discuss two very different poems, “The road not Taken” by Robert Frost, and “Because I Could not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. Both are two immaculate writers, with many outstanding literary works. The Road not Taken speaks about life, and the unique paths we take in it, whereas, Because I Could not Stop for Death speaks of death as a past experience that the author looks back on. Both poems are very powerful, yet, they are mysterious. Describing situations dealing with life and

Poems can have many different meanings, some darker and deeper than others, and are concealed in a puzzle of metaphors and figurative language. “The Road Not Taken” written by Robert Frost, “The Road at The End” written by Carl Sandburg, “Song of the Open Road” written by Walt Whitman, and “The Journey” written by Mary Oliver all have different meanings than first perceived. “Song of the Open Road” depicts positive feelings in the protagonist. “The Road Not Taken” is a fairly neutral point of view

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:

Today is full of decisions to be made. Each decision has more than one path, and the one not chosen can never be taken. It is forever lost to us, no matter how much we may want to change the path we have taken. In the poem, "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost shows us a point in his life where he has to make a decision. He sees two paths of life to go down, and while one is taken by many, and the other is less trodden, as if very few have wandered down it. But he takes the road less traveled by with

In “The Road Not Taken” the speaker stands in the woods trying to decide which road to take at a fork in the path because both paths are filled with levees and brush. The speaker finally chooses one path, telling himself that he will take the other path another day even though he knows that he might not ever be able to do that. In the end he admits that if he would have taken the other road that might have made a difference in his life today. This poem revolves around how choices effect your life

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

Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” centers on the concept of choice. Through the use of the central symbol, the poem expresses both the uncertainty of making a choice and the expectations of the choice made between seemingly equal options. The tone of the poem shifts throughout to show the decision-making process and the regret of choosing wrongly. While the poem gently ironizes the human response to decision making, it is also filled with the anticipation of remorse. Initially, the

“The Road Not Taken” this poem is about choices that they had to make and the future choices this is just like our life we have to make choices all the time. these are some of the choice i had to make, to go my sisters game go to the IU football game or stay home and wash my show cows. My sister is on the basketball team at school and she had a game and she wanted me to go to it because we always go to each other's games. But my friends wanted me to go an IU football because we all got tickets

“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