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    “The Road Not Taken” was a poem written by Robert Frost in 1916. The poem consists of four stanzas that each contains five lines, and the rhyme scheme is ABAAB. The first three stanzas of the poem talk about the past and the fourth one talks about the future. “The Road No Taken” starts off with the narrator coming up to a fork in the path he is traveling. He looked down both of the paths as far as he could and they seemed to be equal; the first path seemed to be traveled more often, but the…

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    including “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, After Apple-Picking”, and “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is known for publishing many books made up of collections of poems and one of his most well-known works “The Road Not Taken”, is one of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are the consequences of the decisions being made. The Road Not Taken was first published in 1916 as one of Frost’s first poem in…

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    There are many variants of choices we have to make in life, some are nugatory and facile choices to make, while others are hard and may transmute our lives thoroughly. In the poems “If” by Rudyard Kipling and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, each poet captures the essence of how consequential choices are. Kipling takes a more literal way of exhibiting how choices affect us while Frost shows choices in a more symbolic and consequential way that makes a reader authentically celebrate. "…

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    story “The Road Not Taken” and “Thank You, Ma’am” They both share the theme of taking the higher road and see the good in everyone. They both show this because they both talk about how they will remember this for a long time and that they took the road that was less taken. During the poem“The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost he is talking about he took the road that is less traveled not literally but to symbolize something. He said the one road was worn out and used a lot and the other road was…

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    Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both depict how choices have a major impact on life. Both poems are about a person traveling in the woods who are forced to choose a path in life. The speaker in both poems goes through two different decision-making processes due to age and principles. In the “Road Not Taken” the poet chooses a path of individualism due to his young age and lack of responsibility to anyone, while the speaker in the “Stopping by Woods…

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    Everyone has or will meet some crosses and turn points on the road of their life that they have to choose one from the other. An individual may deal with the same situation in a completely opposite way to others and his choice probably will result in a distractive future. For example, our ancestor’s choice of leaving Africa and migrating to other continents causes a multicultural world with multiplicity and complexity. The Road Not Taken” is one of the most famous poems Robert Frost composed…

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    England but in whole Europe. His Poetry dealt with elements of nature personal and social aspect of human beings. His themes are Very inspirational, innovative and call of his age. The aim of this paper is to analyze Robert Frost’s poem “The Road not taken” from the viewpoint of stylistic analysis. This analysis covers the different aspects such as the lexico-syntactic patterns and choices, semantically, grammatically, and phonological patterns. This analysis is helpful in…

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    Comparing Farley and Frost Blanche Farley, the author of “The Lover Not Taken”, written in 1984, wrote her poem as a parody to Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, published in 1951. In the original poem, the author states that the poem’s narrator has to choose between two paths, the road that is easy, open and wide, or the one that is chosen less and walked on less. In Farley's parodistic spin on Frost’s poem, she instead allows the narrator to chose both ‘paths’, instead she is referring to…

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    poem “The Road Not Taken”, by Robert Frost, and the sufi tale “When the Waters Changed”, we discover that true fulfilment is not based on making the “right” choices, but finding the bright side of every choice. The Myth of Sisyphus doesn’t just relate to my own life, but the lives of all people, and the characteristics of human nature. Two of the main metaphors, the rock and the mountain, represent two of each individuals main building blocks of life — our hopes and dreams, and the road to…

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    to choose one that most common, which means the choice that the majority would like to choose. However, “The Road Not Taken” is a popular poem, which is written by Robert Frost who is an influential American writer during the twentieth century. The name of the poem is quoted universally even though some people do not know what the context of the poem is. For instance, “‘The Road Not Taken’ has been used in advertisements for Mentos, Nicorette, the multibillion-dollar insurance company AIG, and…

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