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Analysis of the ‘Road Not Taken’
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Robert Lee Frost (1874-January 29, 1963) is an American Artist. His work had been distributed first in England. Frost was known for his depiction of country life, and for the way he influenced American informal speech.
Robert Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry. He turned out to be one of America’s rarest ‘open scholars’ in the midst of a prestigious establishment. In 1960, he received the Congressional Gold Medal. Frost was appointed artist laureate for Vermont on July 22, 1962.
Robert Frost, son of Isabelle Moodie, an English writer, and William Prescott Frost, Jr., was born in San Francisco, California. His mother was Scottish, and his father came from Nicholas Frost, who had sailed to New Hampshire on the Wolfrana in 1634.
Robert Frost is a descendant of Samuel Appleton who was one of the first pilgrims to Ipswich in Massachusetts. George Phillips is one of Watertown’s early pioneers.
Robert Frost’s father worked as a journalist and manager of The San Francisco Evening Bulletin. The city had no chance to collect a fee from him. William Frost Sr., Robert’s great-grandfather, was a New England administrator who supported the family in Lawrence, Massachusetts when Robert Frost died on 5 May 1885. Ice attended Lawrence High School until 1892. Frost’s mother became a member of the Swedenborgian congregation and had him purified by water. However, he later left.
Frost was born in the city and lived in it until he was about twelve years old. He wrote his first song in a magazine of his secondary school. He attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire for two months. This was enough time to get him accepted into Theta Delta Chi. Ice returned to his home and began working at various jobs, such as helping his mother show a class of boisterous men, delivering papers, and maintaining carbon circular segment lighting. He thought his real calling in life was to write poetry.
My Butterfly, his first song, was sold in 1894. The New York Independent, November 8, 1894 edition published ‘An Elegy.’ It was $15 (approximately $434 today). Elinor miriam White refused his proposal of marriage, insisting that she complete her studies at St. Lawrence University first. Ice went to Virginia for a visit and Elinor was asked again when he returned. They were married on December 19,1895 in Lawrence Massachusetts after Elinor graduated.
Robert Frost studied at Harvard University in 1897-1899. He left the university deliberately because of illness. Frost’s grandson bought a farm in Derry in New Hampshire for Robert Frost, and Elinor Frost. Frost worked at the ranch and wrote lyrics all morning while Frost was working. He returned to his field of education as an English teacher in New Hampshire at Pinkerton Academy, from 1906 until 1911.
Frost and his family sailed to Great Britain in 1912. They settled first in Beaconsfield outside of London. A Boy’s Will became his first volume of poetry the following. Edward Thomas, a Dymock writer and Frost’s inspiration for The Road Not Taken’, T. E. Hume, as well as Ezra Pound, were his closest English friends. Frost was not a fan of Pound’s efforts to control Frost’s American prosody. Frost was able to make close friendships with a large number of English artists during his time in England.
Analysis of the poem “The Road Not Taken”. The poem was named after a road that was never chosen, and the poet wanted the audience to believe the lament was the reason for its composition. The lament in stanza 4 is exposed by a metrical trick. The word’murmur’ is used to convey the characters’ lamentation. The single word causes the listener to reread the lyrics to understand the meaning. The traveler either regrets his choice or is relieved to have made the right decision. The writer’s intent is left to the interpreter to explain. There are also metrical techniques like symbolism. Two streets diverged in a wood of yellow leaves, while ‘And both those mornings similarly laid in leaves with no progression’ gives a symbolism to the reader. The reader can visualize this. This is a representation of ‘on account that it was green and needed to be worn.’ A Street, however, cannot create the impression that something needs to be worn. This ballad is engrossing and intriguing because of the rhyme scheme ABAAB. Artists often use words that sound similar when they say ‘needed’. The writer’s moral story comes out when he explains his message about the two-way when he is referring to decisions. The sonnet uses a lot of gadgets to support the general topic. From the vast majority of’streets,’ seen in real life, those not chosen have just as much impact as the ones that are. (Robert, 2015)
The Robert Frost poem ‘The Road Not Taken” expresses the fact that life is full of choices and we are able to influence destiny in some cases. The Road Not Taken uses two options to illustrate a choice in real life. This lyric can only be understood if you understand what life is all about. By using tone and other artistic devices, such as similes and imagery, the creator helps us to better understand his message. In this sonnet the author explains that destiny and choices are both a part of life. The two paths represent the explorer’s life and his choices throughout. This lyric reflects the reality of life. There are choices to be made in every day life that can have a big impact.
We can see that he has given this choice a lot of thought. All throughout the sonnet we find that there are actually two possible paths to follow, but we’re not sure which one the explorer is taking. This is more than a simple decision. Towards end, we notice a dramatic change in tone.
Robert Frost’s lyric ‘I’ll tell this with murmur’ shows his disappointment and that he made a bad choice. Some choices do not need to be over-thought or considered. Sometimes we make decisions that are not based on reality. In general, we cannot question the reasons for our mistakes by relying solely on time. In such a situation, it is important to make a more informed decision. It is important to investigate whether the road we choose has many difficulties. The first thing we thought was that we would choose a more superior route than our previous one, but the road never seemed to come to an end. Our future will be influenced by the choices we make today. Even though the choices we choose may not be the best, they are still better than standing there and doing nothing.
Randall Jarrell was a writer and pundit who praised Frost often. Jarrell said that Frost, along with Stevens, Eliot and others, is the best American poet of this century. Ice’s temperance is phenomenal. His magnificent emotional monologs and sensational scenes are unlike anything else written by a living author. They reveal a level of understanding of men that very few writers have. And they’re written in a way that uses, at times with dominance, real-life rhythms. Robert Frost’s realism and reliability were also praised by him, as he was able to speak about a broad range of human experience in his poetry.
Jarrell’s most influential and persuasive articles about Frost include ‘Robert Frost’s Home Burial’ (1962), which was a thorough and detailed analysis of the poem in question, and ‘To The Laodicea’s’ (1952) where Jarrell defended Frost from critics who accused him of being too ‘customary’ or withdrawn from Modernist or Modernist verse.
Robert Frost uses this lyric to express how the streets represent his life choices. Frost uses the image of the street to express his message. We can understand the feelings he has. The lyric ends with a hint of disappointment, showing how a decision can affect your life. The choices we make in life are what define our lives. People’s choices can shape and even change their lives. A person will occasionally be faced with a life-changing decision. It is still difficult to make a decision, even when you know that it’s necessary. Robert Frost doesn’t know what to do in this line “Sorry…couldn’t travel both”. The only thing he knows is that he will not be able to do both. Indecision, however, is a part of life’s beauty. A lot of good decisions are the result of thoughtful consideration. It is not necessary to always follow the same path as those before you. You can explore a new road with an uncertain future. The key is to be aware and pick the right path out of the many options that life offers.
Robert Frost writes “I chose the path less traveled by and that was the most important”. I felt a strong connection to this poem as I also have struggled in the past with making the right choices. City Tech was a decision I never regretted. Before I came here, I had completed Associate first-year at another college. Many of my family and friends told me to stay at the other college because I already had a place to go. Yet, I came here despite knowing it would be difficult. Like the poet I am sure that my life will be changed by the new challenges and difficulties I face. There are so many choices in life that it’s easy to get confused. It is important to be able choose the right path and continue forward. We cannot go back and change our minds once we have chosen a path. We must be very careful when we make decisions.
ConclusionLife offers many choices. Some of them are planned in advance, while others are made as they unfold. This poem uses the road as a metaphor to explain our decisions. Sometimes, a monumental choice can change the course of a life. Robert Frost wrote a poem called “The Road Not Taken”, which describes one of those moments when a choice could change someone’s destiny. We believe the choice of a road can make a difference in determining how a person’s life turns out. This poem tells us to sometimes let fate be in charge. The combination of fate and decisions is what makes up life. According to author, two paths symbolise the traveler’s life as well as all his decisions. Each decision has a great impact on the traveler’s life.
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