Compare And Contrast If Ever The Sold Gets Off Of My Head By Emily Dickinson

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A wise woman once said a relationship without trust is like a car without gas it's useless. Every family and friendship is built on trust, it creates a better connection and atmosphere. William Shakespeare’s Sonnet CXXXVII, Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken and If Ever The Lid Gets Off Of My Head by Emily Dickinson all portray a small piece of trusts big puzzle. Sonnet CXXXVII illustrates trust in your loved ones. The Road Not Taken describes how trusting yourself can cause all the change. If Ever The Lid Gets Off Of My Head is a great example of trust in the world and to what extent it goes. Stephen Covey once said, “Trust is the glue of life it is the most essential ingredient in effective living. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” Shakespeare, Frost, and Dickinson demonstrate this in their poems.

The way we live our life is merely based on trust and more specifically trust in our loved ones. We become blind and deaf to the obvious signs of mistrust and refuse to believe that they have betrayed us. Shakespeare explains this
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The birds trust in themselves is exemplified greatly in Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. For example in stanza 1 lines 1-2 Frost needs to make a decision, “ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both.” Frost has to choose to go through one of two pathways one of which is used regularly and the other which is barely used, he can either trust the decisions that people before him made or trust himself and go through the pathway no one uses. Society doesn't exactly aid those who make the uncommon decision but having complete trust in yourself and choosing the thing you want is what makes everything interesting as is said in stanza 4 lines 3-5 “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the

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