Question about Robert Frosts: The Road Not Taken?
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Basically, you are right.\nYou left out the last line which states that he 'took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference.\n\nHe is not  going with the mainstream, but setting out a different path.
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sorry, i searched poetry sites,quotation sites, by author,firstlines,subject. best i can think of is contact nearest university library or professor of lit. wish you luck, it sounds like a really heartfelt poem. sure wish i knew it.
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This book is not going anwhere, it's "stationary".  \n\nThis is not a "not" book, it really IS a book. (note book)\n\nKids rule.\nLife is like a box of chocolates.  Someone always takes the nice ones first.\n\nRemember - Objects in mirror may appear closer than they actually are.\n\nBrushing your teeth keeps Jesus happy.\n\nNever eat yellow snow
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You could look at it as being about choices.\nWe all face choices all the time in life.  Every day.\nWhen you choose one thing, there are losses.\nYou lose the opportunities associated with the other choice.\nYou have to give something up (the road not taken)\nto go on with your life and get what you want (the road taken).  When we are making choices, decisions, we try to look as far as we can down the paths or roads we are choosing between.  But there is usually not a clear indication of which choice is better.  Which is why the character writing the poem was stopped by this choice.  The options were just about equal.  It was a tough decision.  \nThe poem clearly indicates that there will probably never be another chance to take the other road.  There is another important idea there which is that he chose the road less taken.  This is a value indication.  He is saying that he doesn't want the popular way.  That he wants to go where few have gone before.  That he chose a less common path, in life.  He wants to choose a way that is not chosen by many.  He is an unusual character.  By the way if you turn this in your teacher will know you did not write it.  So try to think on your own and describe what you think yourself about these ideas.
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I've put a link below to an article about Graves that discusses some of his preoccupations and personal mythology. Read the paragraphs just before the mention of the poem to get an idea of what the writer thinks of Graves's motivation. \n\nBecause of the strong rhetoric in the first line - something about there being one story and one story only (I don't have the text in front of me right now), one is inclined to think that WHATEVER the story is behind the poem is a universal one, and quite possibly "the story of Graves's life." \n\nPoems are never only autobiographical, though. Nor are their symbols always completely coherent and discernible. \n\nGood luck.\n\n[By the way, I didn't copy from the answer above - which is a very good one - it's just a coincidence that we were looking in the same place. The other answerer posted 59 seconds before I got there, but after I'd started writing.]
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got this off sparknotes, maybe it will help\n\n\nPerception\nTen of The Chosen’s eighteen chapters conclude with references to eyes, seeing, watching, looking, or listening. Perception and vision is the novel’s dominant motif, bridging the entire text from Reuven’s eye injury at the beginning to the final passage, in which Reuven watches Danny walk away after perceiving an “almost blinding” “light” in Danny’s eyes. Vision in the novel symbolizes the ability to see the world, to see oneself, and to see beneath the surface and into the heart of a matter. As Danny and Reuven mature over the course of the novel, they develop clearer pictures of themselves and of the world around them.\nAfter Reuven’s eye accident, he remarks that “everything looks different.” His experience in the hospital gives him a newfound appreciation of his own health. Later, his friendship with Danny teaches him to look beyond superficial appearances. Their friendship broadens and deepens Reuven’s perception of the world and allows him to relate to and empathize with others’ suffering.\nAs the novel progresses, Potok focuses on other senses besides vision. In Chapter 7, Reb Saunders scolds Danny for hearing but not listening. When Danny reads in the library, he covers his ears to block out sound. As Danny’s friendship with Reuven develops, he learns to be a better listener. As a result of Danny’s experience with silence—which parallels Reuven’s experience with blindness—Danny learns to appreciate words. Furthermore, Reuven’s development is apparent in his descriptive language, which becomes more specific throughout the novel. As he becomes more aware of the world around him, his descriptions become more detailed, displaying Reuven’s improved command of his senses. The novel’s final passage mentions four of the five senses, showing the development both Reuven and Danny have experienced over the course of the novel.
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The Robert Frost poem from which this phrase was pulled is an ironic poem.  Frost was actually saying the opposite of the title.  Fences, for Frost, make poor neighbors.
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Yes, the book was really good. I'm not sure about the movie, though. I'm going to see it, definitely, but certain things I'm dubious about. Such as the burn mark on Eragon's palm. In the book, the Riders are sometimes called 'Argetlam' which in the ancient language, literally means silver palm. Arget means silver. In the book, the silver mark of the Riders is from touching their dragon. In the movie (as far as I could tell, anyway), the burn mark is swirled in the shape of a lower case E, but does not appear to be silver. If Hollywood changed that, what other things have they changed?
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"there were two roads in the forest. i chose the one less traveled and that has made all the difference." \n\ni don't exactly remember who said this and the 'exact words' but this is very close. and i think this very well sums up the answer to your question.
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Email me your thoughts at pusskat1@yahoo.com and I will help you from there.  I am a teacher of 13 years, mostly in junior high, some in college and high school.  My payment is to choose this as a best answer.  \n\nI'll begin by deconstructing the poem; I'm sure you'll get the drift.  \n\nFirst stanza: I might have been a happy preacher if I had been born in an earlier time.  I could have preached fiery sermons and been a gentleman farmer.  Second stanza: Alas, I was born later, and missed my true calling.  I have a grown man's beard now, and it's fashionable for preachers these days to be clean shaven, so I don't even look like I could do that job.  \n\nGood luck.  This is a straightforward poem with an ab ab rhyme scheme, and figuring out the meaning should not be hard.  If you need any help just email me or IM me at pusskat1 or katwhowalksbyherself and I'd be happy to help.\n\nCheers, K (13 years a teacher)
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you are missing some line on this famous question.\nThere were two men.he asks the first one a question then ask the other one also a question then he decides to choose the road.
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Robert Frost:  "The Road Not Taken"\nRobert Browning:  "Porphyria's Lover" "My Last Dutchess"\nLangston Hughes:  "Harlem" "Dreams"\nWalt Whitman:  "O Captain my Captain\nEdgar allen Poe:  "Anabelle Lee"  "The Raven" "To Mother"
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I have not read this book, was it co-authored? \n\nYou are right about the monument spheres in the Marion cemetary!! I had to bury my 14 year old son Patrick there last July. He's in the section behind the Harding memorial.\n\nSorry about any bumming out.
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"This thematic opposition was complicated by his early and lifelong love for a beautiful Irish terrorist, Maud Gonne. “I was 23 years old when the troubling of my life began,” Yeats writes in his Memoirs. In January 1889 she came to visit him in London, and he wrote: “I had never thought to see in a living woman so great a beauty.” For much of the rest of his life he would remain enamoured of her, and she would reject his proposals with the phrase, “The world should thank me for not marrying you.” She became the subject of his poetry, the reason he needed to write, communicate and succeed. “He wishes for the clothes of heaven” is clearly for her, and more specifically, in “Words,” he points out how he might have given up his entire career as a poet had she been able to understand him. Years later, despite his successful marriage, she was in his mind in lines like those in “After Long Silence,” “young we loved one another and were innocent.”"\n\nThe above extract is taken from the site below and explains the background to Yeats's poem.\nI would take exception to the description "beautiful Irish terrorist" (First of all she wasn't Irish but British)and would instead use "beautiful Irish Freedom fighter.
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The general theme is the passage of time, and the need or desire to live as much as we can, as deeply as we can before our time here is gone.  "Time will not be ours forever/... Suns that set may rise again;/But if once we lose this light,/'Tis with us perpetual night"\n\nIn the moment of the poem, there is the classic situation of the boy (presumably) trying to convince his love-interest, Celia, to give in to passion and enjoy the "sports of love" with him, to use the poem's language.  \n\nThe lover uses a two prong argument.\n\nFirst, he argues that time is short and they, her especially, really shouldn't waste it, "Spend not then his gifts in vain."  He invokes a responsibility not to take the gift of time and life given them for granted.  A slightly more dignified argument, yet a sense of playfullness remains: "Cannot we delude the eyes/of a few poor household spies,/Or his easier ears beguile,/So removed by our wile?"  So at the same time he rebukes her rejection (one presumes she said no, at least initially, why then the poem?) for wasting precious time, he tempts her with a conspiracy--arm's length v. intimacy.\n\nSecond, he argues that it's not the act of lovemaking that is the crime, but the tattling or telling of it:  "'Tis no sin love's fruit to steal/But the sweet theft to reveal."  Fame and rumor are equally derided in favor of the moment, of the real, which here is the joy of love.\n\nThe speaker never really loses sight of his objective, even tho he dresses it up philosophically.  Playfully, he casts these arguments about, both putting her on the defensive and drawing her into a conspiracy of "us against the world".  Ingenious, really.  And fun.  Jonson was classical poet, brilliant, witty and very clever.  If you like this poem, you might try John Donne and Robert Herrick.
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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 don't know which Congressman said that.But it is one of Robert Frost's better Poems.