The Road Not Taken Analysis Essay
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“Changing one’s perspective can be confronting and enriching.”
The Encarta Concise English Dictionary defines perspective as
“A particular evaluation of a situation or facts, especially from one person’s point of view.”
This perspective is shaped by events in a person’s life.
These may be decisions they make, or knowledge and change thrust upon them. No matter which circumstances that cause this change in perspective, the effect will be a growth of character in the person.
A change in perspective is therefore a change in a person’s evaluation of …show more content…
The words stay the same, but the tune changes, this is a conflation of culture.
The final line of dialogue in the movie, a voiceover delivered by Josie, demonstrates just how comfortable she now is, with her life when she declares;
“I am Christina and Michael’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter. We’re not cursed, we’re blessed.”
The poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost is an extended metaphor for the choices we make in life.
The poem consists of four stanzas and follows a rhyming pattern, except for the last stanza, which puts an emphasis on the first line.
In the first stanza the composer describes how he is faced with two choices or roads, and that he would like to travel both, but he knows he cannot do this. So he tries to see down each road to decide on his path.
The second stanza shows the struggle of choosing between two similar paths. The man in the poem chooses one path.
In the third stanza he stipulates that neither path has been followed recently, and that one day he would like to come back and travel the other road, however due to the way in life that one thing leads to another, he doubted he would.
I shall be telling this with a
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“Changing one’s perspective can be confronting and enriching.”
The Encarta Concise English Dictionary defines perspective as
“A particular evaluation of a situation or facts, especially from one person’s point of view.”
This perspective is shaped by events in a person’s life.
These may be decisions they make, or knowledge and change thrust upon them. No matter which circumstances that cause this change in perspective, the effect will be a growth of character in the person.
A change in perspective is therefore a change in a person’s evaluation of …show more content…
The words stay the same, but the tune changes, this is a conflation of culture.
The final line of dialogue in the movie, a voiceover delivered by Josie, demonstrates just how comfortable she now is, with her life when she declares;
“I am Christina and Michael’s daughter and Katia’s granddaughter. We’re not cursed, we’re blessed.”
The poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost is an extended metaphor for the choices we make in life.
The poem consists of four stanzas and follows a rhyming pattern, except for the last stanza, which puts an emphasis on the first line.
In the first stanza the composer describes how he is faced with two choices or roads, and that he would like to travel both, but he knows he cannot do this. So he tries to see down each road to decide on his path.
The second stanza shows the struggle of choosing between two similar paths. The man in the poem chooses one path.
In the third stanza he stipulates that neither path has been followed recently, and that one day he would like to come back and travel the other road, however due to the way in life that one thing leads to another, he doubted he would.
I shall be telling this with a