The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

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 narrative poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost has long been a well-received favorite. This story is based on the idea of things hidden from view. Two roads lie before the poet, but the poet is clueless as to where these roads will lead. In order to convey Frost’s message, “The Road Not Taken” relies heavily on the use of imagery, metaphorical language and metrical devices to bring to life this actual and figurative road. Through the use of these literary devices, the theme is set,…

resembles a road, one that is long and curvy. Just like roads, life is full stop signs and one must decide what direction to take. However, unlike roads, life does not provide a navigational system that directs someone to their desired destination. One must make decisions and rely upon those choices made to get them to their preferred destination. Robert Frost in his famous poem “The Road Not Taken” talks about a man who comes upon one of life’s stop signs and he must decide what road will lead…

The Frosty Road Robert Lee Frost was an American poet whose most famous works include descriptions of the American rural scenes and life. Frost is best known for using rural scenes to examine political and social issues of his day. All of Frost’s works include vivid detail of the rural scenery from New England. Many read Frost’s work and only take his words for face value, and not the philosophical usage with in each of these poems. An example of the values distilled within Frost’s poems is in,…

Robert Frost, people call him a nature poet or an author, but no he is a man of metaphors. As a kid growing up in San Francisco, Robert Frost went through very personal hardships. At the age of 11, his father passed away. He then dropped out of college without a degree and struggled unsuccessfully with farming. Four of his six children died, including a son committing suicide, his wife went to depression. During all this personal hardship the world was going through its own troubles such as…

isn’t far from true. Life can get extremely overwhelming, and sometimes one needs to stop and cherish the basic items in life. Robert Frost exemplifies this through all of his poems. This theraputic way of coping is shown through the speaker of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and The Road Not Taken. Different Routes: Theraputic Memories in Robert Frost Life can be stressful and can cause one to forget to not take nature for granted. Most people tend to get caught up in…

Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and American Poet Robert Frost, is vastly admired for his realistic depictions of natural life and his use of American colloquial speech in his poetry. While most poets tend to disguise themselves in their stories, Frost uses literary elements such as structure, diction and most of all symbolism to portray themes strictly relating to his own personal life. Referred to by many as the greatest poet of the twentieth century, Frost was undoubtedly inspired by the…

Speech of 1942, and poets Robert Frost’s and Langston Hughes’s poems were their messages. In this case, their messages, or poems, are literally about life. Poems “The Road Not Taken” and “Mother to Son” are perfect examples of such. Both Robert Frost and Langston Hughes show how exploration confronts “the unknown” by using varying levels of diction, extended metaphors, and symbols. In order to convey their ideas, authors use different levels of diction. In “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker…

Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and—in retrospect—often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. Soon after writing the poem in 1915, Frost griped to Thomas that he had read the poem to an audience of college students and that it had been “taken pretty seriously … despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner…

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…