An Explanation Of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

Improved Essays
Discourse

Malcolm Gladwell says, "Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur"

The famous line “I took the one less travelled by” from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not taken” is attributed as being one of the most misunderstood phrases in modern literature. The line which endures the place on the tongue of many hopeful fathers is really an indictment of Frosts anticipation of remorse of his future self - having taken the road less travelled looking back rather than looking forward. It’s a line that without context – can shift our capability to interpret a semantic claim. Frosts juxtaposition can be closely tied with that of modern society – barraged with the detestation from the swinging
…show more content…
Taken from Robert Frost’s
When in reality it’s an indictment of the random
– possibility. Context – a word where by wars, politics.
We are now in a new world where the context is so elusive that intenet – to critiquing on politics in art.

In May, 1966, Chinas communist leader, Mao Zedong passe

There’s a famous quote from the book Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon – it goes “You never did the Kenotia kid.
During a sequence the protagonist is forced to take 10ml of sodium amatol, better known as truth serum, to which he releases the statement in 6 different iterations.

Debated what Pynchon is reaching out to us whether direct or indirectly is that conext is everything. Not just in the different iterations of grammatical variations withi..

Values and motives – of us vs that of a machine.

Picasso “cezanne is the father of us all” cubism

Why are art and designers redefining community, it’s a revolution in the making – driven by the internet
…show more content…
Rid of capitalism mao zuden, mao boost economy redistributed land – forcing china into factories – desimated the country – unites with radicals – cultural revolution – burgeois ideas have krept into government- shut down schools.
Chinese Culutral Revolution
In the response to events like the Global Financial Crisis, the “Age of Terror” and climate change, many artist and designers are producing works that attempt to (re)build and redefine communities. Focusing on three or four examples from the last 20 years discuss how creative practices can generate communities which resonate, critique and engage with global issues.

The critique of issues in the world through art on the internet being able to spread out a message like cancer and opening up new contexts in which to view art.

I want to discuss how the internet is creating a new wave of connection. There are artists who are trying to change and shift that direction it’s a platform of context, where within

Gravitys rainbow – page 60
Sodium amatol – truth serum
Dream like rifts
A telegram launches the character into a meditation of a 6 word

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Live Dining Project

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages

    There are artists out there that commit their lives to the involvement of changing the how people view their environment and the artists shown here have done it in a way that involves the public in the artwork itself. Nicole Fournier is an artist, activist and founder of InTerreArt which has exhibited her art for more than 20 years. Nicole’s best known work involves the concept of incorporating art, the environment, performance and agriculture called Live Dining. The Live Dining Project is the act of integrating a dining-kitchen room installation in a location where plants grow and the performance of harvesting, cooking and dining all from one area. Amy Franceschini is an artist, educator and award winning web designer who uses her talents…

    • 1179 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Amongst the variety of selective works from our readings, my attention was particularly drawn to the work of Jeff Thomas. The piece titled, “Culture Revolution” left a key interest in where my attention was drawn. The photograph brings a tense feeling and draws the viewer’s attention to the details amongst the figure in it. When looking at the photograph, there is a sense of wonder to it. Jeff Thomas gives his audience a way to wonder what the meaning behind the photo is; while it seems as if the artist is trying to understand that as well.…

    • 349 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Lewis, Sarah, and Katherine Anne Ackley. “Scientists Aren't the Only Innovators: We Really Need Artists.” Perspectives on contemporary issues: readings across the disciplines, Eighth ed. , Cengage Learning, Boston, 2018, pp. 197–200.…

    • 888 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Art is all around us, no matter where we go or what we do, there will always be a form of art that is nearby, and as a result of this, art has become one of the most significant aspects of a person’s daily life. In a sense, art is quite like water. It is something that is physical, but the changes that it can embody or bring forth are just like the formlessness of water. Art has become something more than just a work that should be admired, but rather, it has become a medium of speech for the ones that create it. In Dorothy Allison’s “This is Our World”, multiple anecdotes are used to allow the reader to better understand art.…

    • 1233 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The centralization of the practice in Mexico City may seem worrisome at first glance, but it’s important to remember that the greater Mexico’s capital city, with a population of about 21 million, is the confluence point for economy and culture in the whole country. People from all over the country have made Mexico City their home. This, added to the fact that the country has a decentralised arts infrastructure, even though it’s not always completely functional, permit to imagine that the live coding practice will find a proper and healthy expansion throughout the country in years to come. But most importantly, this expansion will occur naturally by the inherent qualities of live coding that combine so well with the needs of the artistic community in Mexico, a new economy country plagued by a long story of corruption and injustice towards most of the population by an ultra enriched and racist elite that systematically suppresses the native cultures and the women in general, making sure to increasingly shrink the possibilities for diversity, inclusion, good education, and artistic expression with every change of government.…

    • 291 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dionysus is easily seen as the ‘mad, drunken god’ and has constantly be repressed,and been a symbol of activities and actions that should be repressed, by both history and society. However, the madness that the god of wine embodies should be nothing sort of celebrated as the ‘madness’ of Dionysus needs to be something we as humans strive towards. “Wine has in it something of the spirit of infinity which brings the primal world to life again (Otto 101), not speaking specifically of wine, becoming drunk with something, whether it be art, literature, or even compassion is the doorway to the true realities of life that are tucked away otherwise. Creativity, which is the singular thing that allows us to be truly free, is still greatly suppressed in our culture resulting in the loss of identity and potential artists that would only serve to better their environments. Charles Baudelaire famously said in his prose novel, Paris Spleen, to, “Be always drunken.…

    • 497 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If it weren’t for the communicative talents of living artists, the beautiful work of the past would disappear. Paper is not living. Ink is not living. It is every artist’s obligation and responsibility to take the insentient and give it…

    • 489 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To live in a static state of mind is to restrict the joy one may find in life. Oliver Sacks, Maggie Nelson, and Robert Thurman all suggest that one’s perception of the world, as well as the flexibility of their state of mind, directly correlates with how they exist within it. Specifically, Thurman’s work “Wisdom” claims that it is necessary for one to abandon the idea of having a fixed and strict self but rather open up one’s mind to become a flexible thinker, allowing one to create human connection. In her essay “Great to watch” Nelson argues that one must break away from the banal life society accepts as normal and reject a fixed mental state that we are trapped in. Throughout his interactions with those who were born blind or became blind…

    • 1775 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing Ourselves” said Yoko Ono, peace activist. People in the 60s felt they could express themselves and be the person they want to be. From this the 60s created a subculture called hippies. Hippies believed in freedom, peace, love, and people’s rights. Commonly, that is what people associate with this decade, but there’s much more to it than that.…

    • 907 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Puerto Rican Experience

    • 791 Words
    • 4 Pages

    One foot rooted in urban Puerto Rican heritage and the other having been later immersed in the Southern black experience as an adult, I have learned to merge the conceivably disparate cultures of my family. Each afforded me a unique point of view, developing the self-assurance that has empowered me to succeed in the face of adversity. Being of Puerto Rican descent in the inner city kept the lack of financial stability of my youth in view and motivated me to pursue my education. As a black American female I learned the value of diversity, having experienced first-hand the misconceptions that can shape in a homogeneous environment. For instance from being called “too much of a free-spirited city girl,” in the country to later being “too old-fashioned…

    • 791 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Human beings always have had an innate ability to imagine and create that what lies beyond just a primal, basic understanding of the world around them. It is this nature that overflows with ingenuity and vision that begs to be conveyed through something that has existed since the dawn of humanity. Artistic expression is an undeniable epicenter of the human identity. The arts are such a rooted part of the human identity that every society, culture, civilization, and group emulates some form of it, from pottery in Ancient Egypt to Shakespearean plays in 18th Century England. With this in mind, philosophers have attempted to answer throughout history the burning questions pertaining to this need and appreciation for the arts, to explain what stimulates…

    • 1401 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Today, many like Karen Armstrong, acknowledge the significant role art plays in a community. Throughout her essay, Homo Religiosus, she argues that art, much like religion, has the capability to allow one to temporarily forget and transcend their daily struggles, and rather focus on an ideal future. Maggie Nelson’s essay, Great to Watch, questions how society relates to the world and through what can we do so. Nelson opens her text with a discussion of Sister Helen Prejean, who proposes in her memoir, Dead Man Walking, ignorance was a major obstacle that paused social and moral progress. Prejean was convinced that exposure to a world crisis will inspire others to help make change.…

    • 1649 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There is a belief that products/ideas are successful and meaningful only when they are given exposure on TV, making everybody crazy of fame and show off rather than excellence and brilliance. Because of its virtual and passive nature, TV has driven us way from the real world and people, recreation and real communication. In the last page of the article, Brooks has explained the power of thinking and imagination with the example of Computer Graphicists. With the power of imagination, Computer Graphicists can sub-create worlds which can be more beautiful and meaningful than the world one has ever seen.…

    • 896 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1 INTRODUCTION Stefan Sagmeister is a world famous artist specializing in graphic design, typography, interactive and environmental art (Stefan Sagmeister 2017). He uses his art to confront many controversial topics and allows his audiences to take part in his art. We will be able to see Sagmeister's causes and design strategies by looking at a few key Marxist theories such as how two opposites cannot exist without one another and how we place ourselves in our social structure relative to others. We will do this by using his artworks Everybody always thinks that they are right, Obsessions make my life worse but my work better, and The happy show. 2 RESEARCH AND VISUAL ANALYSIS Firstly we have figure 1, Everybody always thinks that they are…

    • 1264 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In 1936, German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin coined the idea of “aestheticization of politics”. This theory expresses the idea that life and affairs of living are made to be innately artistic and are thus related to politics in the same manner. This means that politics can be viewed as artistic and structured as that of an art form that corresponds with the concept that life is also to be seen artistically. Benjamin believed that this theory of aestheticization of politics was a vital aspect to Fascist regimes. The rise of fascism within Europe, and especially within Germany, was the epochal transformation during Benjamin’s time and also created a threatening connotation to Benjamin him self’s life as a Jew and as a radical during this time period.…

    • 816 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays