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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.…

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    there. The speaker can’t see or make out anything, only his footsteps. He follows the endless street around its endless corners, and says that no one follows him but he is pursuing someone else. The man the speaker is following stumbles and looks back only to say that there is no one there. The speaker is faced with being with no options and stuck entirely alone. He has no doors to enter or other paths to take. He is stuck going on the same path with nobody to accompany him. When it seems…

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    XXIX By Antonio Machado

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    about a road that do not exist yet. He could be talking about his personal experience or about how he defined road in life. At the beginning of the poem the Author says, “Traveler, your foot steps are the road, and nothing more (Machado 1)”. Machado is describing the road that people has to make. He continues saying, “Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking (Machado 1)”. It means that people do not have any options to choose a decision. There is just one way to go throw the road…

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    “The Road Not Taken” is a poem about this traveler came across two pathways. The poem shows a conspiracy about which road is less traveled. One road is more plain, the other one, they are both covered in virginal leaves. It implies that during the harvest dawn, neither road looked shabby or damaged, crude to how the speaker will tell his story years from now. The speaker has to choose which road to take and whatever road he choose to take he has to stick with his decision and never look back.…

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    speaker of “The Road not taken”,while he travelled, finds himself, alone in a fork path, in the woods. He considers two paths in the road, which were equally worn and overlaid with un-trodden leaves. He is caught in a dilema of deciding which path to trod, finally, he decides to choose one, “the one less travelled by”.(DiYanni,2008) He decideds to save the other path for another day, knowing fully well that he is unlikely to travel by this route again. “I doubted if I should ever come…

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    have read “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and thought I am who I am because of all the good and all of the bad choices I have made although in contrary to this common interpretation figurative language such as metaphor, symbolism, and irony suggest that our decisions aren’t what define who we are in life or the success or failures we have but rather another one of life's complexities.…

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    Road "Are you ready yet?", My father shouted from downstairs as he warmed up the truck "almost" I shouted from my room upstairs. I was super exicited it was my first time going hunting with my dad. My dad had loaded up the trucks with some gronola bars, two containers of water, some rope, and two burst rifles. "I raced downstairs with excitement, gave my mother a kiss grabbed my bag at the door filled with some hot sandwhiches for the road. We then hit the road and we were on our way. We got to…

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    Forever and ever the road seemed to stretch, as though it was designed with no end in mind — as though it was designed to go on forever. This would not have been all that bad had it not been for the fact that I was treading in territory somewhere deep in the heart of Mission, Texas, a city entirely unfamiliar to me. I was surrounded by an unknown frontier, and I knew not which way led home. To make matters a little worse, I had my younger brother, Diego, age 14, in the passenger seat beside me.…

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    “The Road Not Taken” was a poem written by Robert Frost in 1916. The poem consists of four stanzas that each contains five lines, and the rhyme scheme is ABAAB. The first three stanzas of the poem talk about the past and the fourth one talks about the future. “The Road No Taken” starts off with the narrator coming up to a fork in the path he is traveling. He looked down both of the paths as far as he could and they seemed to be equal; the first path seemed to be traveled more often, but the…

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    myself included. It could be said that road rage is caused by people with anger issues. Which is only a part of the problem. The truth is there are so many more factors to road rage. nearly every driver suffers from road rage, or have been on the receiving end. Once we enter our cars, some of us feel invisible, and believe that everyone needs move out of our way. which in turn has negative consequences, on ones well being and those of others around us. Road rage is extremely dangerous, there…

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