explain how you would develop your argument for this interpretation. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem with an obvious literal meaning. A man comes to a fork in the road and has to make a decision on which way to go to continue his journey. After a lot of thought‚ the traveler chooses the road “less traveled by.” I interpreted this to mean that he took the more complex path or journey and avoided the simpler road. My thesis sentence for this poem would be “ In life all people are faced
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“The Road not taken” by Roberts Frost. Frost wrote the poem in first person. In the first part of the poem‚ he describes that there are two choices to make in the forest where the leaves have changed to yellow there he must choose between two paths that head in different directions. He regrets that he cannot follow both roads‚ but since that is not possible‚ he pauses for a while to consider his choice. One road seems preferable. Then he realizes that both roads are likely equally traveled and that
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The Road Not Taken Personal Response: I think that the poem "the Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a beautiful short poem‚ and that this poem may tell an experience that you will eventually have in your life or an experience that you have had in your life. This poem seems to be about a person who had to chose between two big decisions that has occured in his life. And there is one path that seems to be so much easier‚ with less effort to reach the end of this path. The other path is the one
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READER’S RESPONSE STRATEGY/ READER’S RESPONSE CRITICISM Applying Reader Response Strategy in Appreciating Literary Works The appreciation of the short story applies seven reader response strategies posed by Beach and Marshall (1990); they are describing‚ conceiving‚ explaining‚ interpreting‚ engaging‚ connecting and judging. The guiding questions are constructed based on the responses. NO | Response | Explanations | Indicators | Questions to guide | 1 | Engaging(Include) | Getting involved
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The speaker in Robert Frost ’s "The Road Not Taken" gives the reader insight into human nature with each line of poetry. While‚ Frost had not originally intended for this to be an inspirational poem‚ line by line‚ the speaker is encouraging each reader to seek out his or her own personal path in the journey of life. Romanticizing the rural woods of New England creates the perfect setting for the theme of self-discovery laid out and described by the speaker. Robert Frost ’s original intent in
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1173-12 Ms. Kimbrough 21 August 2013 Choosing A Path: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost When you come to a fork in the road‚ will you take the path less traveled by? The main theme in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is individualism. In this poem‚ the speaker is at a fork in the road‚ forced to choose which path to take. “The traveler is alone and must face this difficult choice alone” (Lee). The speaker looks down both roads and compares the two. “And sorry I could not travel both / And
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diamond. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ presents the theme of the universal and inevitable functions of choice and time. Frost successfully supports this theme through vivid and continuous symbolism‚ among the entire story. Initially‚ Frost introduces an idea that every decision consists of only two options: to do something or not to do something‚ each with certain repercussions. In the beginning‚ the speaker is in the woods and ahead of him are two separate roads. Each road symbolizes
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human misfortunes and fears‚ his response to the obstacles of life‚ and his acceptance of his burdens. His observations and natural details of his poems have symbolic significance‚ even reality beyond the observable physical universe. It is known that Robert Frost’s best works were written in England. During 1916‚ Robert Frost‚ an English professor at Amherst College‚ encouraged his students to write out their thoughts creatively while he wrote "The Road Not Taken"‚ one of his famous poems today.
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The three literary pieces‚ “The Road Not Taken” (poem)‚ and the two
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take the risk and head down the path they choose. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” discusses a method used to make a significant decision and the resulting consequences of that action. The author has found themselves at a fork in the path in the woods and must decide whether to take the smooth‚ commonly used road or the rougher‚ less-taken road. He ultimately decides to take the path that is not frequently taken‚ and then proclaims that decision has made a vital difference in his life. In
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