“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost the speaker stands in the woods‚ took into account a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves (“And as for that the passing there / had worn them really about the same.” “And both that morning equally lay / in leaves no step had trodden black.”). The speaker chooses one‚ telling himself that he will take the other another day. (“Oh‚ I kept the first for another day!”) Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have
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By: Mr Fagg The Road Not Taken In “The Road Not Taken” Frost emphasizes that every person is a traveler choosing the roads to follow on their continuous journey-life. There is never a straight path that leads a person in one direction but many. You may chose to take the same path as others but you can make a path to go your own way in life. This poem leaves me to break
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caught my interest was‚ “The Road not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost (1916). Even though this poem may not affect someone else who reads it‚ I enjoyed its so much. This poem means different things to each person that reads it. I connected with this poem because sometimes I wonder how my life could have been different had I chosen a different road! When I consider this poem both roads were a lot alike—the speaker seems satisfied with the choice‚ and knows that leaving the other road for future travel is not
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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The Road Not Taken What is the connotative meaning to the road not taken and how does it explain the purpose of the poem? To begin‚ the title of the poem is “The Road Not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost. The poem is about two roads that go different ways and a person having to choose one of the roads. One of the roads look like many people have gone through it and the other road mysterious with almost no sight of being taken recently. The poem has multiple denotative and connotative phrases such as
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------------------------------------------------- Student`s Individual Work №1 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Stylistic device (see the lecture №3) Simile An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor A comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using
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Benjamin Liang Poem Analysis – The Road Not Taken People make choice every second‚ for instance‚ where should I go to lunch‚ KFC or McDonald’s? “The Road Not Taken” is a well-known poem about choice. Though it’s really brief‚ it told us a vital truth; the direction the one take in life will determine one’s future. Thus‚ people have to think about their choice carefully. In addition‚ it simply says that choice is inevitable‚ but you never know what your choice will cause until you have lived it
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Stylistic Devices in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury ’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style "like a great organ. ..." (73). David Mogen comments on the novel ’s "vivid style" (110). Peter Sisario applauds the "subtle depth" of Bradbury ’s allusions (201)‚ and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury ’s bipolar "symbolic fire" (197) imagery. In recent articles I discussed Bradbury ’s use of mirror imagery and nature imagery.
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Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” In the first stanza‚ Frost is telling of how he sees two roads‚ but he cannot possibly take both. The first road he looks at can only be seen as far as a near curve with undergrowth. The second road he sees has a grassy path and “want[s] wear.” In the third stanza Frost debates which path to take and decides to leave the first road for another day‚ if he decides to ever come back. The fourth and final stanza of the poem tells how Frost is telling the tale with
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“The Road Not Taken” I think that this poem is about regret‚ not the regret of the choice made‚ but that of not being able to choose both paths. In the first two lines of the poem‚ the speaker is at a fork in the road of and knows that he can only go down one of these roads. The word “yellow” in the first line makes me think of flowers‚ nature‚ and ultimately life. This is the path of life‚ which is full of choices. In the second and third lines‚ the speaker regrets not being able to go down
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