Although written by the same poet, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” and “Carpe Diem” both reflect a vaguely different style and moral of the poem. Despite conveying an entirely different message beneath the unique stories, Robert Frost manages to use the same figurative languages for both poems, such as personification, repetition, and natural imagery. Each one of these figurative language used has their own significant within the poem, whether it is for delivering the message or reiterating the life lesson Frost is trying to say. In both poems “The Road Not Taken” and “Carpe Diem”, Frost uses personification to appeal the personified object towards the reader as a more lively and animated creature. Although “Carpe Diem” is more heavily
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With natural imagery, the poet is able to depict a clear, beautiful scene for his setting. Such as when Age watches over the young couple, he describes them “Go loving by at twilight” and the places they might go as “homeward, Or outward from the village, Or (chimes were ringing) churchward”. This helps build a lucid image in the reader’s mind as where the couples might go to and the surrounding of them during that time. This foreshadows the message Age expresses later on. Alternatively, “The Road Not Taken” uses natural imagery more vividly than “Carpe Diem”. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” gives a setting for the situation the traveller is facing; later, the roads are described as “Because it was grassy and wanted wear….In leaves no step had trodden black.” This allows readers to place themselves into the situation of the traveller and relate to the difficulty he faces and justify with him as he makes his choice at the end. Once readers are able to relate to traveller’s choice, they are also able to dig out the meaning out of it easily. Living in a complex world, people often don’t realize that imagery is scattered all around the world. Without imagery, there would be no world because the world is made of imageries; using imagery as a technique in literature facilitates the readers to imagine and expand among the world of fantasies and
With natural imagery, the poet is able to depict a clear, beautiful scene for his setting. Such as when Age watches over the young couple, he describes them “Go loving by at twilight” and the places they might go as “homeward, Or outward from the village, Or (chimes were ringing) churchward”. This helps build a lucid image in the reader’s mind as where the couples might go to and the surrounding of them during that time. This foreshadows the message Age expresses later on. Alternatively, “The Road Not Taken” uses natural imagery more vividly than “Carpe Diem”. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” gives a setting for the situation the traveller is facing; later, the roads are described as “Because it was grassy and wanted wear….In leaves no step had trodden black.” This allows readers to place themselves into the situation of the traveller and relate to the difficulty he faces and justify with him as he makes his choice at the end. Once readers are able to relate to traveller’s choice, they are also able to dig out the meaning out of it easily. Living in a complex world, people often don’t realize that imagery is scattered all around the world. Without imagery, there would be no world because the world is made of imageries; using imagery as a technique in literature facilitates the readers to imagine and expand among the world of fantasies and