In the poems “If…”, “Road Not Taken”, and “Mother and Son”. The theme that is expressed is the fact that the decisions that you make can affect your future. The first poem “ It…” Expresses this theme by using word choice and repeated ideas. This is shown when the parent, while talking to his child, states “If you can dream and not make dreams your master.” first, the word “if” is repeated many times throughout the poem, second the word “dreams” is great because dreams are random thoughts. This implies that these random thoughts should not control every decision you make. Another line that shows this is when the parent states that ”If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,” now again
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This is because while talking to her son and giving him advice about life, she says “Don't you set down on the steps of cause you finds it's kinder hard.” now the author is comparing steps to life, probably because like life, you always have to keep going. You also have the fact that because you made the decision to sit down you find that life was harder than before the mother also says, while describing what she did, she says that “I’se been a-climbin’ on” and “It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,” so she’s comparing the bad parts in life to splinter, torn boards, and tacks. She also made the decision to keep going and because of that, her future had tacks, splinters, etc. In the final poem “The road not taken” the author uses figurative language to show the effect of choices on life. He talks about having to choose between two paths and must decide which to use “And sorry I could not travel both” this line shows the decision he made. He is regretting his choice. He does eventually regret it and says with a “sigh” which in this case is bad. He also says “I took the [road] less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” This suggests to the reader that when he is looking back he questions what might have been had he taken the other
This is because while talking to her son and giving him advice about life, she says “Don't you set down on the steps of cause you finds it's kinder hard.” now the author is comparing steps to life, probably because like life, you always have to keep going. You also have the fact that because you made the decision to sit down you find that life was harder than before the mother also says, while describing what she did, she says that “I’se been a-climbin’ on” and “It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,” so she’s comparing the bad parts in life to splinter, torn boards, and tacks. She also made the decision to keep going and because of that, her future had tacks, splinters, etc. In the final poem “The road not taken” the author uses figurative language to show the effect of choices on life. He talks about having to choose between two paths and must decide which to use “And sorry I could not travel both” this line shows the decision he made. He is regretting his choice. He does eventually regret it and says with a “sigh” which in this case is bad. He also says “I took the [road] less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” This suggests to the reader that when he is looking back he questions what might have been had he taken the other