What is the meaning of the poem "the road less taken" by Robert Frost ?
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Isn't it 'The Road Not Taken'?I don't know^_^"\n\nFrom 'two roads' to 'undergrowth'\nWell,there were two roads that he could take.But of course he could only choose one.He thought about it very hard and tried to see how long he could go on one of the roads before it turned,which means he was trying to imagine how far he could possibly reach in his life if he took that road.\n\nFrom 'then took' to 'about the same'\nSo he took the other one,which looked lass travelled by.'Because it was grassy and wanted wear' meant it was not often taken.If it was often walked on,the grass would be gone or thin,but this road was grassy.'wanted wear' means it wants somebody to walk on it.But as he walked on,he realised both roads were actually the same.\n\nFrom 'and both' to 'ever come back'\nThe roads were the same as he looked further.'in leaves no step had trodden black' means no one had stepped on the leaves(on the ground) to make them dirty.He then decided that he would come back one day to try the otherroad.But realising that the path he was on wove to other paths and was neverending,he doubted he would come back again.\n\nLast part:\n'I shall be telling this with a sigh' means he was relieved\nhe went on the path that he did.The writer is reflecting now,saying that a long time ago,he took the one less travelled by and he is glad.\n\nMy dad says in reality,both roads were the same,and that the poet was wrong about writing he took the one less travelled by.But that's just our opinions. :)
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Sounds like it is from "War of the Worlds". Maybe the following:\n\n"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
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Robert Frost \nRobert Frost is one the most well-known and respected authors in American literary history. He highly praised for his images of life in New England, and also his traditional meter and form. Frost resisted following the popular trends in literature, and created some of the most important literature of the twentieth century. During his career he has won four Pulitzer Prizes in poetry\n\nor if you want someone that was doing their own thing\n\nJack Kerouac (1922-1969)\n\nKerouac was the key figure of the "beat" movement of the 1950's. His book "On the Road" captured the minds of young readers and brought the work of the "beat" writers into the limelight. His philosophies on writing and lifestyle have been compared with Whitman and Thoreau. Jack Kerouac continues to be one of the most widely read authors from his time and in recent years interest in his work has risen.
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Could also refer to language that has a special meaning in the passage or story.  For example in Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall, he says, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" - simple words, but very meaningful in that poem.  Similarly, the title of Frost's poem Out, Out is very simple, but highly meaningful when you know the words come from Lady MacBeth's speech with the words "Out, d****d spot ...."\n\nI would suggest looking for words that are particularly meaningful in the story.
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Robert Frost has several poems with magnificent use of sensory language.  My personal favorites are "Stopping By Woods" and "My November Guest".  Bellow is a link to some of his works.  The link below will take you to several of his works.
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It is not a poem. It is originally from the novel by Charles Dickens,  A Tale of Two Cities.  It is the opening sentence to the novel.  The actual quote is: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.   It is one of the most famous lines in all of literature and quoted very often.  I believe the sentence concerns the French Revolution.
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,\nThat thereby beauty's rose might never die,\nBut as the riper should by time decease,\nHis tender heir might bear his memory:\nBut thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,\nFeed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,\nMaking a famine where abundance lies,\nThy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:\nThou that art now the world's fresh ornament,\nAnd only herald to the gaudy spring,\nWithin thine own bud buriest thy content,\nAnd, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:\nPity the world, or else this glutton be,\nTo eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.\n\n\nQuestionable it may be,\nat least be thankful\nyou don't read the poet from Dundee!\n\n\nBeautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!\nAlas! I am very sorry to say\nThat ninety lives have been taken away\nOn the last Sabbath day of 1879,\nWhich will be remember'd for a very long time.\n\n'Twas about seven o'clock at night,\nAnd the wind it blew with all its might,\nAnd the rain came pouring down,\nAnd the dark clods seem'd to frown,\nAnd the Demon of the air seem'd to say-\n"I'll blow down the Bridge of Tay."\n\nWhen the train left Edinburgh\nThe passengers' hearts were light and felt no sorrow,\nBut Boreas blew a terrific gale,\nWhich made their hearts for to quail,\nAnd many of the passengers with fear did say-\n"I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay."\n\nBut when the train came near to Wormit Bay,\nBoreas he did loud and angry bray,\nAnd shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay\nOn the last Sabbath day of 1879,\nWhich will be remember'd for a very long time.\n\nSo the train sped on with all its might,\nAnd Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sught,\nAnd the passengers' hearts felt light,\nThinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year,\nWith their friends at home they lov'd most dear,\nAnd wish them all a happy New Year.\n\nSo the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay,\nUntil it was about midway,\nThen the central girders with a crash gave way,\nAnd down went the train and passengers into the Tay!\nThe Storm Fiend did loudly bray,\nBecause ninety lives had been taken away,\nOn the last Sabbath day of 1879,\nWhich will be remember'd for a very long time.\n\nAs soon as the catastrophe came to be known\nThe alarm from mouth to mouth was blown,\nAnd the cry rang out all o'er the town,\nGood Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down,\nAnd a passenger train from Edinburgh,\nWhich fill'd all the peoples hearts with sorrow,\nAnd made them for to turn pale,\nBecause none of the passengers were sav'd to tell the tale\nHow the disaster happen'd on the last Sabbath day of 1879,\nWhich will be remember'd for a very long time.\n\nIt must have been an awful sight,\nTo witness in the dusky moonlight,\nWhile the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,\nAlong the Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,\nOh! ill-fated Bridge of thSilv'ry Tay,\nI must now conclude my lay\nBy telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,\nThat your central girders would not have given way,\nAt least many sensible men do say,\nHad they been supported on each side with buttresses,\nAt least many sensible men confesses,\nFor the stronger we our houses do build,\nThe less chance we have of being killed.\n\n\nEnjoy!
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Definitely try to include a little humor.  \n\nThe poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost might be useful to you - it can give all kinds of ideas for your speech.  You could talk about following dreams and stars, even when it is not the most usual or popular road to follow.\n\nTHE ROAD NOT TAKEN\nTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,\nAnd sorry I could not travel both\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood\nAnd looked down one as far as I could\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;\nThen took the other, as just as fair,\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;\nThough as for that the passing there\nHad worn them really about the same,\nAnd both that morning equally lay\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.\nOh, I kept the first for another day!\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,\nI doubted if I should ever come back.\nI shall be telling this with a sigh\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I-\nI took the one less traveled by,\nAnd that has made all the difference.
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Crystalheart287, I am including an incomplete brief writing that may afford you some ideas for a best topic and composition. In it are found several topics of interest such as migration in search of a better life, a distinguished person, and of course President Kennedy. Think straight,smooth,make notes for research and consolidate into a report. Jose\n\nEndeavors in overcoming oppression were indeed early struggles, which were part of our social American evolution.  Although Robert Frost (1874-1963) is not known as a political poet or essayist, his poetry and lifestyle in my opinion did serve as prime example to the freedoms, which America afforded its citizenry of his day, in contrast to life in America in the 17th century.  Frost being born a Californian moved with his proper nuclear family to New England.  Here in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Frost graduated from high school in 1891, married and continued his education.  Twenty years later after unsatisfying intellectual and agricultural ventures, he moved with his new nuclear proper family to England.  In this atmosphere and in reminisce of his life and friends in America, he soon was devotedly engaged in writing poetry.  His desire to roam far from home became evident of a man in search of his true identity, his destiny, and afforded him insight into colonial American life of which he was extremely proud of and that instilled in Frost the ‘want of write’.  It was by this personal venture that he gained the ability to express his poetry through colloquial rhythms, simplicity of image and folksy diction.  His verses were to contribute a rich footing for American social development and can be sensed in the following passage to his poem ‘The Gift Outright’;\nThe land was ours before we were the lands,\nShe was our land more than a hundred years,\nBefore we were her people.\nThis patriotic presentation is so moving to so many Americans that Frost personally recited it at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s Presidential inauguration in 1961. An honorable achievement by a political conservative, a beautiful social achievement through literature.
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The Road Less Traveled. It's a greatest hits CD.
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You could read this poem:\n\nDo Not Stand at My Grave and Weep\n \nDo not stand at my grave and weep,\nI am not there, I do not sleep.\n\nI am a thousand winds that blow.\nI am the diamond glint on snow.\nI am the sunlight on ripened grain.\nI am the gentle autumn rain.\n\nWhen you wake in the morning's hush,\nI am the sweet, uplifting rush \nOf quiet birds in circled flight.\nI am the soft starlight at night.\n\nDo not stand at my grave and weep.\nI am not there, I do not sleep.\nDo not stand at my grave and cry.\nI am not there, I did not die!\n\nMary Frye (1932)
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the poem or the phrase?  Please explain in more detail.
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"The Road Not Taken" because it talks about the choices people have to make in their life. At least once in a while we all have to choose between two roads because we "can´t travel both".
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I know that this is not what you were looking for but maybe it could help you with your essay?\nhttp://www.finchpark.com/arts/poems/poems.htm
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I believe this is a quote of Holden Caufield from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In telling us his story he begins to miss everybody. In a sense he is saying nostalgia is self perpetuating or futile.
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" we are such stuff as dreams are made on...and our little life is surrounded by a sleep."  - Robert Frost
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Sometimes by Sheila Pugh \n    \nSometimes things don't go, after all \nfrom bad to worse. Some years muscadel \nfaces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail, \nsometimes a man aims high, and all goes well. \n\nA people sometimes will step back from war; \nelect an honest man; decide they care \nenough, that they can't leave some stranger poor. \nSome men become what they were born for. \n\nSometimes our best efforts do not go \namiss; sometimes we do as we mean to. \nThe sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow \nthat seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.