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Recently, I had a chance to read “The Road Not Taken”, one of the most familiar and popular poems of Robert Frost. The poem was about two different directions, which indicate the paths in life. The narrator did not know what they will be, but he had to make a decision on one of them, and he regretted on another way. He took the road that less traveled by because he might be different than everyone else. Moreover, the poetry represented that every road has both misfortune and pleasant surprises.…

precariously high resting on a beam of worn wood which decreases in width as our eyes travel upward. The subject is curled, his legs clutched tightly to his chest and his spine bulging from beneath his skin. This is the image that greets us when looking at Robert Mapplethorpe’s Untitled (Phillip on a Pedestal), the photo could be described as beautiful or disturbing, or more likely both. One feels the need to ogle over the awkward bones protruding, at the figure we are immediately drawn to. When…

News has broken concerning a very high-profile new film project for Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. The man known for directing a wide range of different genre films (Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City), will be helming a live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga series Battle Angel Alita for 20th Century Fox. Perhaps of even more notoriety though, is that the film will be produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau under their Lightstorm Entertainment banner, which certainly promises a…

Robert Frost was considered the celebrity of the poetry world and “perhaps the most successful of American poets” (Caravants). Although he was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874 (“Robert”), he spent most of his life in New England, and it was there that he picked up managed to develop a lot of the traits seen in his poetry today. He moved to England with his wife in an attempt to get published because there were more media sources and his plan paid off. In his poems “Fire and Ice,”…

In 1916, the poet Robert Frost published the iconic poem “The Road Not Taken” to the world. This poem is written in a first person perspective and it begins with a person explaining to the reader that they have come to a halt in the road. The road had forked into two separate roads, each going into two different directions. The person was unsure on which path they should choose, so they decided to figure out where they each went. According to the speaker, one of the roads had nicer grass and the…

The thought that first surfaces from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is that one has not made the correct choice by choosing a certain path, and the juxtaposition of good qualities between two roads. The poem creates an impossible decision between two seemingly similar roads that lead separate ways, leaving a traveler unknowing of where it will end up, and that one may perhaps be more favorable. The reality of the poem is that there is no right choice in which path is taken. The poem's…

Like other stories, “Porphyria’s Lover” focuses on a devastating love story with a horrid twist near the end. The tragic tale concludes with the maiden dying in the arms of her lover; however, the poem is vastly different than what one may assume. Robert Browning is unlike most authors throughout the Victorian era; he reveals a sinister vibe in his works. Because of the somber theme, the haunting imagery, and the dire symbols, one may predict the outcome of this dreadful tale. When the reader…

“Mending Wall” was first published in 1914 in the second collection of Robert Frost. The poem brings out the comparison of two different kinds of people with different personalities which in this poem are neighbors. The two neighbors have different perspectives regarding the fence but they annually meet and repair the wall once it's destroyed by nature every spring. The speaker believes that the wall is not important but he's the one who initiates the repair of the fence. The neighbor keeps on…

Robert Frost is a famous American poet of the 19th century who was admired for his work. Frost left an imprint in the world by developing poems that let readers experience feelings through words. He usually focus his poems on experiences that a person would face regularly. Though, Frost includes numerous metaphors that outlined his experiences and environments he lived in. He expressed his feelings through the the use of figurative language. The poet compared himself to a person, place, or thing…

In his poem “The Wood-Pile”, Robert Frost reveals humanity's thirst for knowledge, yet fear in the unknown. He unravels this through a series of binary diction, vivid details, and images of life(or the lack of life). A man goes on a lonely stroll in a frozen swamp. He is has a fear of what is ahead and says, “I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther and we shall see(2-3).” There is a noticeable shift from the pronoun “I” to the pronoun “we”. This signifies the speaker’s belief in a…