"The Road Not Taken"
"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
2007-03-07 14:19:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
These poems speak to EVERYONE that thinks about the significance of their lives and "what's it all about". The Road Not Taken - Your life can turn on a dime depending on which path you take when you must choose at a fork in the road. The traveler in the poem takes the "road less traveled" - maybe the harder road, the scarier road and that "makes all the difference". Choosing which lover to marry, choosing to go to college or take a job, choosing to travel or stay put, all of these things make "all the difference" and shape ALL of the rest of your life. "On A Snowy Evening" is about choosing to succumb to stillness and death - lie down and sleep and let it all slip away- or buck up and press on and do what you have to do before you "rest" or die. It's about duty and strength and doing all you have to do - going miles - before you "sleep. I am not a huge fan of Frost but I think these are brilliant and they have shaped my life personally.
2007-03-07 14:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by ckswife 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generations of readers have loved 'Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' without ever noticing that the poem forms a perfect little vignette, a still visual in black and white. The wind blows, the 'little horse' shakes his harness bells, but otherwise all is still. The mystery of the poem is in its last lines - about promises to keep and the miles we go before we sleep. Is it literal? Does it refer to death?
In 'The Road Not Taken' Frost asks us to visualize a fork in the road in the middle of a woods. The speaker in this poem must decide which path to take, and after looking down both, he takes the one 'less traveled by' .Without recognizing that Frost's forest road represents the road of life and experience, understanding and appreciation of this poem remains limited . The two roads in this poem symbolize the speaker's choice between two different metaphorical paths (or choices) he must take. His comment at the end of the poem that his decision 'has made all the difference' leads us to believe that this decision was a crucial one.
2007-03-07 15:12:38 · answer #2 · answered by irish1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Road Not Taken, because so many can identify with Mr. Frosts feelings in this poem. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening-because we will all sie someday and we all recognize this. The themes are universal.
2007-03-07 14:27:56 · answer #3 · answered by bichomau1965 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
people read them
2007-03-07 14:22:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
please see my answer to this same question you just posted?
2007-03-07 14:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by trillian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋