The road not Taken

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How Does Robert Frost use image and sound to get his points across in The Road Not Taken. Any Help With this would be appreciated. Thanks

[Chester]

You know, I haven't been here very long (what, this is like my 10th post?) but it seems like 80% of it is people wanting other people to do their homework for them.

Am I wrong? I sure hope so.

Look, sporty, read the damn poem. How long is it, for crying out loud? Give Guitar Hero a rest for twelve seconds.

READ.

THINK.

Tell you what, why don't you tell us how Robert Frost uses image and sound?

We're listening. You can do this. I know you can.

[Virgil]

You know, I haven't been here very long (what, this is like my 10th post?) but it seems like 80% of it is people wanting other people to do their homework for them.

Am I wrong? I sure hope so.

Look, sporty, read the damn poem. How long is it, for crying out loud? Give Guitar Hero a rest for twelve seconds.

READ.

THINK.

Tell you what, why don't you tell us how Robert Frost uses image and sound?

We're listening. You can do this. I know you can.

I wouldn't say it's 80%. It'more like 2 or 3%. But it does happen and I ignore them.

[Logos]

....Am I wrong? I sure hope so. ....

Yes you are, but you will see lots of these types of threads; please ignore them if you do not have something constructive to add. We try to be kind to newbies around here

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Sorry you couldn't be of any help I was just looking for some different interperations of the poem I have already wriiten my paper

[Chester]

Yes you are, but you will see lots of these types of threads; please ignore them if you do not have something constructive to add. We try to be kind to newbies around here

I meant no disrespect, Logos. It seems a pretty clear difference to me, though, between 'newbies' (implying perhaps that maybe the possibility exists they'll become veterans one day with interesting things to say) and folks merely trying to have others do their thinking for them. This one just seemed especially obvious to me (but maybe s/he'll post his paper to show me I am happily wrong).

In any event, I'll take your advice to ignore them, and I'll take your and Virgil's word for it that this kind of thing isn't the norm around here. Thanks.

[madem514]

a little harsh aren't we lol

[Chester]

a little harsh aren't we lol

It's possible that I have inadvertantly projected, into where it doesn't belong, some of my own disappointment over both the current state of education as well as the troubling student work ethic nowadays. Don't mind me.

Carry on.

[sinopound]

yellow wood,two roads,a traveller,grass,leaves,way,time.

I can feel the sound in "it bent in the undergrowth","the passing" and "step had trodden". The first is from the roads and the others are from people who pass on them,including the poet who choose the one less travelled by.

Any viewpoints?Feel easy to communicate anyway!

[mzhudson@sbcglo]

How Does Robert Frost use image and sound to get his points across in The Road Not Taken. Any Help With this would be appreciated. Thanks

"TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;"

Here, he paints you the image of two roads coming apart from one into a yellow-colored wooded area. He goes on to help you visualize his pain at not being able to go along down both roads, and helps you see him standing there for a long period looking down the one direction until he could see no more as it disappeared in the bushes.



"Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,"

Here he compares the other road to what he has just "shown" you by stating it is "just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy."
He goes on to tell you it looked as if it "wanted wear"--that is, it looked as if it wanted to be walked upon, even though both roads were worn about the same amount.


"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back."

Here he paints the picture further by telling you that both roads, on that morning, were equally covered in leaves that had not been trampled and crushed and turned to black yet. So, he took the second road, the one looking as if it wanted to be walked upon. Doubtng he'd ever come back to make his trip down the other path.


"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

Here, he uses the sound of the sigh, you literally hear him sigh as he says it, and then he tells you that that simple choice he made that long ago day changed his life forever.

[ctalerico]

Nice commentary, mzhudson, on a literal interpretation but might I suggest Frost uses this frozen-in-time poem-scene (just as he does in "Stopping By Woods" and others his other poems) as a metaphysical moment transcending one level to metaphorically reach a deeper nonliteral level--one perhaps more elusive and sublime but more profound than the simple scene immediately suggest?

[Delta40]

how does Frost use image and sound?

key words for me are

one traveller
undergrowth
grassy
worn
trodden
doubted
sigh
ages
wood
difference