Discovery In Allan Bailie's The Road Not Taken

Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perception of ourselves and others.

By broadening and deepening our perspectives on the wider world, discovery can lead us to new worlds, values and future possibilities. However the process of discovery can be conflicting with our personal beliefs. Whilst Allan Bailie's The China Coin examines the impact of discovery such as new worlds and values, Robert Frost's poems 'The Road not Taken', 'Mending Wall', 'Tuft of Flowers', and the film Clueless directed by Amy Hecklings explore the complex process of discovery.

Personal discovery through experience and journey enable us to stimulate recognition of new identity and alter relationship of individuals. Baillie conveys the
Robert Frost clearly promotes this notion in the poem 'The Road Not Taken. The literal description of the poem is a person walking down a road who comes to a folk and has difficulty to make decision. The descriptive feature in the first line 'Two road diverges in a yellow wood', helps readers to visualize the image and metaphorically implies the moment in our life when we have to confront to make decisions. The uncertainty of the spirit is well expressed by the words 'perhaps' in 'And having perhaps the better claim. However, without being able to predict the consequence of the choices, the traveler decides to take the path that 'was grassy and wanted wear', the combination of figurative language and personification accentuates the decision is very unique and not many people have chose it. Along with this unique decision, the narrator is able to gain new personal understanding of himself, such as bravery, courage and the desire to adventure. The poet also portrays the traveler reminisce the memory 'ages and ages hence', the use of repetition of 'Two roads diverges in a wood' in the beginning and the end brings the audience back to the origin. From the last line in the poem, ' And that has made all the difference,' he understands his decision is irreversible and it has totally changes the destiny and fate of
The concept is revealed by Robert Frost in the poem 'The tuft of flowers' where the insight transformation of the persona from solitude nature to companionship has been achieved successfully. The internal monologue in the third stanza 'I must be, as he had been--alone,/Whether they work together or apart.' depicts the isolation which resonates the audience as it is the loneliness nature of human. Subsequently, the appearance of the butterfly interrupts the reverie on solitude. It alters the persona's sight to the tuft of flowers. He realizes his colleague has spared the flowers because of the recognition of the beauty. Describing flowers as 'A leaping tongue of bloom', it has become a symbol of what units the poet and the unseen mower. Both have a love of beauty and nature. the use of rhyme in the thirteen stanza 'the mower in the dew had loved them thus, by leaving them to flourish not for us.' emphasizes the spiritual connection between his value and the other man's value, between his work and the other man's work. Henceforth, a sense of companionship is able to be developed from the loneliness. This development is assisted by the repetition of the statement ' Whether they work together or apart.' The change from a sense of individuality to a sense of companionship, from a sense of working alone to a final recognition that 'men work