Research Paper On The Road Not Taken
“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
Lindsey Stevens
ENG102W
September 22, 2012
“A Road Not Taken” is a poem that most of have read or heard of at one time or another by the writer Robert Frost. I first read this poem in Elementary school but it always stuck with me whenever I would read it again. “A Road Not Taken” shadows that we as humans make choices regardless if the choice was good or bad, there are consequences that affect our destiny. The setting of “A Road Not Taken” takes place in the woods to me I see a quiet opening in the woods, with a ray of autumn sun shining on the narrator, the season of fall with a fork of two windy roads both full of potential opportunity. The yellow woods represent fall and I imagine the smell of crisp cold breeze. The wet leaves lay on the ground with dew or rain, unworn and freshly blown onto the road where the decision maker stands. One reason why I’m driven to this poem for how the reader can choose his or her own meaning from Robert’s work. The narrator says his reaction to the decision with words and phrases that could mean positive success or negative regret. Robert made his …show more content…
Which is where the reader can make his/her own meaning, tone and overall message of the poem. If an optimistic reader was to read this poem, one could take out that taking the less traveled road brought the narrator great success. An optimistic reader could perhaps sense that the man is telling this with dignity and a way to show non-conformity and independent decision-making. Compared to if a more pessimistic reader was to read they could take back that the man regretted his decision with taking the less traveled road and wish that he could go back and try his decision again. The pessemtic reader could feel that the narrator was regretfully saying this poem alone “The Road Not Taken” By Robert
Lindsey Stevens
ENG102W
September 22, 2012
“A Road Not Taken” is a poem that most of have read or heard of at one time or another by the writer Robert Frost. I first read this poem in Elementary school but it always stuck with me whenever I would read it again. “A Road Not Taken” shadows that we as humans make choices regardless if the choice was good or bad, there are consequences that affect our destiny. The setting of “A Road Not Taken” takes place in the woods to me I see a quiet opening in the woods, with a ray of autumn sun shining on the narrator, the season of fall with a fork of two windy roads both full of potential opportunity. The yellow woods represent fall and I imagine the smell of crisp cold breeze. The wet leaves lay on the ground with dew or rain, unworn and freshly blown onto the road where the decision maker stands. One reason why I’m driven to this poem for how the reader can choose his or her own meaning from Robert’s work. The narrator says his reaction to the decision with words and phrases that could mean positive success or negative regret. Robert made his …show more content…
Which is where the reader can make his/her own meaning, tone and overall message of the poem. If an optimistic reader was to read this poem, one could take out that taking the less traveled road brought the narrator great success. An optimistic reader could perhaps sense that the man is telling this with dignity and a way to show non-conformity and independent decision-making. Compared to if a more pessimistic reader was to read they could take back that the man regretted his decision with taking the less traveled road and wish that he could go back and try his decision again. The pessemtic reader could feel that the narrator was regretfully saying this poem alone “The Road Not Taken” By Robert