Jane Horrocks

While looking at Robert Frost’s poems like Fire and Ice and The Road Not Taken one can analyze Frost’s style. In Fire and Ice Frost uses two literal things that take on a figurative meaning to express the true meaning of the poem, fire, and ice. In The Road Not Taken Frost uses the literal situation of choosing between two paths and the figurative language of imaging the journey of taking the two paths to express the true meaning of the poem. Through his literal and figurative topics and ideas,…

Robert Frost is the author and speaker of the poem “The Road Not Taken”. Robert Frost is an American poet who was born in San Francisco. “The Road Not Taken” is one of the most popular poems written by Robert Frost. It consists of four stanzas and each stanza contains five lines. This poem uses much of symbolism. The author which is Robert Frost, must choose between two paths in the wood but is having trouble deciding which one he should take. He also reveals many emotions such as regret,…

Comparative Essay Following your path is a good thing but there are negatives and positives that go along with making your own decisions. In both “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Experience” by Dorothy Livesay the poets use metaphor and point of view to communicate their difficult experiences when dealing with finding their way in life, however Frost and Livesay had two different experiences when dealing with finding their way in life, which is shown in their poems. Both poets used…

“The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost is set to remind people of the dynamics of life. For an example, the decision made to use someone’s idea to create an essay, and the lack of understanding that doing so would lead to possible plagiarism could cause a problem. The risk and the consequences of the choice made transpire. Had a longer extension been asked of, because the original paper was nothing like the one turned in, the question of honesty would not be, and overall grade average would be a…

Through the poems If and The Road Not Taken, composed by Rudyard Kipling and Robert Frost respectively, both contemplate the future of one’s identity. Kipling utilises the title of his poem, personification and repetition of similar dialogue to “If you can dream -and not make dreams your master,” to look into the future of the described man. Kipling is describing characteristics of a man and basically saying, ‘if you do… you will be a man in the future.’ Similarly, Frost uses the metaphor to…

Throughout life people have to make many choices, they have to pick one path over another. In his poem “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost uses the symbol of the road to show the importance of breaking away from social norms. He uses the two roads to show the paths that society often pushes at people. One is following where others have gone before, the other is to take your own road, where fewer people have gone. In the beginning of the poem Frost writes “And having perhaps the better claim,…

Every great poem has an even greater meaning. “The Road Not Taken” is about a person who is deciding which way path to take. This poem is usually misunderstood because many people think that he is trying to decide which path is better, but actually he talks about how each of the paths are pretty much the same. “ Though as for that, the passing there / Had worn them really about the same” (Frost, 219-220). He is saying that both paths are pretty much equal and used just as frequent as the other.…

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…

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and John Keats’ “When I Have Fears” both contemplate similar life concerns but do so in separate ways. Both narrators use various literary devices to set the mood and illustrate the meaning of life conveyed by the literature. While one author looks forward with fear and the other looks back with content, both describe the deeper meaning behind the choices made throughout one’s lifetime. Keats arrives to the conclusion that death’s looming imminence may cut…

In the poem “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost describes an individual's struggle to make a choice between what is expected and what is different. Through Frost’s use of a strict, yet sometimes wavering meter along with an ABAAB rhyme scheme, the use of imagery and metaphors, and the contradiction Frost makes in the last stanza, he is able to portray the difficulty in making decisions and the outcome of those choices. The meter of the poem would be considered to be iambic tetrameter, yet lines…