There have been many great poets and poems throughout history but Robert Frost and his poems take the cake because they are well thought out and have many different meanings and figurative language. On poemhunter.com he is considered the second-best poet of all time beating people like Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare. On poets.org, it said that Frost began his interest in writing and poetry when he was in high school. He then went to Dartmouth College and later transferred to Harvard. He never earned a formal degree. Frost was not only a poet before accomplishing his dream, he was also a teacher, cobbler, and editor.
Robert Frost did not become an amazing poet without any inspiration. When he lived in England, he was inspired by many …show more content…
It consists of 4 stanzas and 5 lines in each stanza. The poem’s Rhyme Scheme is ABAAB. This differs from almost all other poems. The poem is told in first person point of view. It has a hyperbole in the second line in the fourth stanza, ‘Somewhere ages and ages hence’. This is a hyperbole because it is an exaggeration saying that many ages have henced. There is also the use of personification in the second stanza third line “Because it was grassy and wanted wear”. This is personification because the path is given the human quality of wanting people to take it. The poem consists of no alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, and idioms. The mood of the poem is choice. People took the tone of the poem as serious even though he meant it as a joke says …show more content…
Then he thought about what would happen on that path and did not think he should ever come back. The narrator decides to take one of the paths at another time, but then he realizes he Yancey 3 may never have that choice to make again. In the fourth paragraph, he is thinking towards the future and how this choice can change his whole life. His life will be better than if he takes the common road because he will take the less popular choice.
Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is very different from “The Road Not Taken”. They have a completely different rhyme scheme. “In Nothing Gold Can Stay” the rhyme scheme is AAbbCCdd etc. It is also a lot shorter. It consists of one stanza with eight lines. The two poems also have different meanings. “The Road Not Taken” is a theme for making difficult decisions in life, how hard it is, and the outcome of those decisions. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” it is saying not everything good or wonderful can stay forever and at some point it has to
Robert Frost did not become an amazing poet without any inspiration. When he lived in England, he was inspired by many …show more content…
It consists of 4 stanzas and 5 lines in each stanza. The poem’s Rhyme Scheme is ABAAB. This differs from almost all other poems. The poem is told in first person point of view. It has a hyperbole in the second line in the fourth stanza, ‘Somewhere ages and ages hence’. This is a hyperbole because it is an exaggeration saying that many ages have henced. There is also the use of personification in the second stanza third line “Because it was grassy and wanted wear”. This is personification because the path is given the human quality of wanting people to take it. The poem consists of no alliteration, onomatopoeia, similes, and idioms. The mood of the poem is choice. People took the tone of the poem as serious even though he meant it as a joke says …show more content…
Then he thought about what would happen on that path and did not think he should ever come back. The narrator decides to take one of the paths at another time, but then he realizes he Yancey 3 may never have that choice to make again. In the fourth paragraph, he is thinking towards the future and how this choice can change his whole life. His life will be better than if he takes the common road because he will take the less popular choice.
Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is very different from “The Road Not Taken”. They have a completely different rhyme scheme. “In Nothing Gold Can Stay” the rhyme scheme is AAbbCCdd etc. It is also a lot shorter. It consists of one stanza with eight lines. The two poems also have different meanings. “The Road Not Taken” is a theme for making difficult decisions in life, how hard it is, and the outcome of those decisions. In the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” it is saying not everything good or wonderful can stay forever and at some point it has to