Robert Frost's Poetry

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The paper shows how "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods" and "Design," are poems that demonstrate Robert Frost's literary techniques of metaphor, symbolism and imagery. The paper also shows how these poems all contain an underlying message that deals with the greater issues of life. The paper points out that all three poems deal with specific elements of nature and represent a certain aspect of our human lives.

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"Frost is no stranger to symbolism. In his famous poem, "The Road Not Taken," the most powerful illustration of symbolism is the roads. The roads are symbols for choices that we face during our lives. That the poet made the choices in life roads is significant because we travel through life like we travel down roads and we seldom have the choice for a "do over." In other words, once we decide to do something, we must live with the consequences with that choice - be they good or bad. It is not as if we can back up and return to where we fist began and start over. We know this is true when the poet admits, "Yet knowing how way leads on to way,/I doubted if I should ever come back" (15-5). Knowing that the choice cannot be taken back should give the poet (and us) a reason to stop and think before we act."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Frost, Robert. "Design." The Harper American Literature, Single Volume. 3rd Ed. New York: Longman. 1998.
• ---. "Stopping by Woods." The Harper American Literature, Single Volume. 3rd Ed. New York: Longman. 1998.
• ---. "The Road Not Taken." The Harper American Literature, Single Volume. 3rd Ed. New York: Longman. 1998.

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