Comparing Maya Angelou And Robert Frost

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Maya Angelou and Robert Frost
This powerful poem goes really well with this event. Frost and Maya both had different choices, they examined their choices and decided to veer away from the norm and take a different road. Maya was taking the road that not many people would travel. She had many opportunities to go home and go back to Mother but she decided not to and to stay out in the world by herself.
Frost and Maya can connect based on the fact that they both had two roads. Frost had a road that people usually took and it was pretty standard and then one that has been overgrown because rarely did anyone travel it. Maya had similar roads. She could do what almost everyone else in her situation would do and go back home to Mother to let her

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