Fork In the Road In life, there are times where decisions need to be made. There is an array of decisions that you are going to come across whether the purpose is growth, career, or relationships. Robert Frost and Blanche Farley each wrote a poem with two different scenarios that conveyed similar messages. In “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost and “The Lover Not Taken,” By Blanche Farley both poems use a similar tone when describing the journey that each of the speakers came across when they approached a fork in the road and had to make the uneasy decision of taking the road less traveled by. In “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost, The speaker is traveling in the woods when “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost, 1)) and he
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In the beginning of the poem, the author's attitude is strictly based on her desires of wanting both men, making it hard for her to make a decision. In majority of the poem she is weighing out the advantages that each guy offers, as seen on lines 5-10 where the author states, “ This new guy, smooth as yellow wood. / Really turned her on. She liked his hair, / His Smile. But the other, Jake, had a claim / On her already and she has to admit, he did wear / well. In fact, to be perfectly fair, / He understood her.” As the poem moves on towards her making the decision of choosing Jake, despite possibly hurting the person she is currently in a relationship with, the tone turns to sad and regretful “as she turned with a sigh. / Somewhere ages and ages hence, She might be telling this. ‘And I--’ / She would say, ‘Stood faithfully by’” (11-15). This goes to show again what frost was conveying in his poem that she obviously wants to make the right decision, as it could be life changing. By the end, we see the tone shift to being adventurous when the speaker abruptly “..took the fast way home / .. and phoned the blond” (21-20) risking everything for lust, again, conveying to the reader to live their best life with the choices they want to make, before life passes them by and they are left behind with a life of
In the beginning of the poem, the author's attitude is strictly based on her desires of wanting both men, making it hard for her to make a decision. In majority of the poem she is weighing out the advantages that each guy offers, as seen on lines 5-10 where the author states, “ This new guy, smooth as yellow wood. / Really turned her on. She liked his hair, / His Smile. But the other, Jake, had a claim / On her already and she has to admit, he did wear / well. In fact, to be perfectly fair, / He understood her.” As the poem moves on towards her making the decision of choosing Jake, despite possibly hurting the person she is currently in a relationship with, the tone turns to sad and regretful “as she turned with a sigh. / Somewhere ages and ages hence, She might be telling this. ‘And I--’ / She would say, ‘Stood faithfully by’” (11-15). This goes to show again what frost was conveying in his poem that she obviously wants to make the right decision, as it could be life changing. By the end, we see the tone shift to being adventurous when the speaker abruptly “..took the fast way home / .. and phoned the blond” (21-20) risking everything for lust, again, conveying to the reader to live their best life with the choices they want to make, before life passes them by and they are left behind with a life of