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Choosing a Path - The Poetry of Robert Frost


I decided to pick the road less taken and told the truth. The outcome was I would have fallen into a large predicament if I had lied. The poem "The Road Not Taken" had made me rethink how I act throughout my everyday life.
             To understand the poems that Robert Frost writes, the reader must first examine his background. Throughout Robert Frost's poetry connections to New England show up. This is because Robert Frost lived in New England from the time that he was 11 years old and lived there for the majority of his life. This is why almost all of his poems include a New England theme. An example of this is in the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this poem, Frost uses a wintery night in New England. Even in the title Frost adds, "on a Snowy Evening." Another theme that comes up throughout Frost's poetry is death. This is because two of Frost children died at a young age. This adds death and darkness to his poetry. In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the quotes "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep" add to the darkness of the poem. The woods are a metaphor for death and in the poem his calls death "lovely."In "Fire and Ice" Frost talks about the destruction of the world and the death that is inevitable to all humans. "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice." The themes of darkness, death and New England are seen throughout Robert Frost's poetry. .
             The poem "The Road Not Taken" is the clearest example of an instance when Robert Frost asked a question in his poetry. This poem starts out as simple as two roads that divide into two different paths. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." This is seen throughout many literary pieces and it is a metaphor for two different directions. This example of a duality in Frost's work. The two paths are seen with the qualities of right verses wrong.


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