Taken

Have you ever wondered if the choices that you make really matter? In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” he explores the finality of your decisions and how they will affect you in “ages and ages hence.” In the poem Mr. Frost discusses taking a walk through a “yellow woods” as he comes across a fork in the path and deliberates over which path to take. Robert Frost utilizes Form, Imagery, and Symbolism to portray how your choices affect you forever. Robert Frost employs form to show that…

“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…

firm believer in using happiness to initiate a poem. Sequentially, turning said happiness into a gradual journey of self-acknowledgment and a deeper sense of wisdom. Henceforth, not many people grasp the concept behind Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" at first glance. The story is an assertion of the vital essence of the choices one must make in life's journey and includes an ironic twist of the tendency to struggle with making said choices in life. Frost employs the metaphor of two roads…

foreign policy set America up for mishap. The government created a standard of disappointment and the lack of trust people felt for the government was astonishing. Broken promises became a theme, and ineffective administration became an expectation. Taken Hostage by David Farber plays through the set up of the Iranian-Hostage Crisis and the many governmental failings that lead to it. The reactions of the American public make it apparent that the actions of the United States government, through…

America and Iran, the open opinion and public attacks towards Carter started to wake up Americans. Since his failed attempts to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Iran with other financial issues and domestic policies. In David Farber’s, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical…

between not studying hard enough for a test to missing a goal in soccer, regret has its flavours. But why do we regret? We, as humans simple believe that we should have made a better choice, but we didn’t. Paul D’Angelo, the author of the “The Step Not Taken” can give a perfect explanation of how regret feels. He chooses to not help a weeping businessman in an elevator and later on regretted it because he believed his choice was not the right choice.…

terrain, an escapee from a prison camp is forced to make a fateful decision whether to travel one path or the other. Taking a particular path could suggest freedom or death. As well, like Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” the speaker reflects on taking the less taken path, and believes he will reflect in the future that his choice was both life-altering and controversial. Tim O’Brien’s short story, “On the Rainy River” discusses the reluctance of fighting in war, and explores a person’s…

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is viewed to choose the path of their own desire. In the first line “Two roads diverged in a yellow road/And sorry I could not travel both” (line1-2) represents how in reality, many people would come to a decision to make a choice of which journey they would embark on. The choices they make would change their lives for the better, and represents how curiosity persuaded one to take both roads to experience different perspectives to gain more knowledge…

One of the best poems that effectively represent poetic elements, is the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. This poem might be a contradiction to many readers, but the whole point of this poem is to represent an archetypal dilemma based on life archetypes. The main big picture in this poem is that the speaker/hero is in the middle of the woods and he sees two diverging roads leading to different pathways. The speaker is confused to which road to choose, somehow, he chose one pathway and…