Your instructor will give you another 5 points if you post a follow-up comment or question that furthers the discussion. But almost immediately, he contradicts himself: the next lines say that the two paths were worn 'really about the same. Or does it only appear to flicker through intervening trees, lit by a self-sufficient couple who put it out nightly when they please? He questions the man not in a direct way, but rather by implying that by looking and waiting for another, he's not making the most of his life. Sharing both themes of faith and doubt make it seem as if Frost's poems all center around the themes of nature in relevance to God and other entities. Where and how do living beings get instincts to live? His constant analogies to God make this point seem even more potent.
A top student in his class, he shared valedictorian honours with Elinor White, with whom he had already fallen in love. I will look her up - I love these unexpected connections that poetry can provide. Traditional Elements in a Modernist Poem There are several things in this poem that are usually seen in traditional, not modernist, poetry. This might encourage the idea of trusting your gut instinct. What poetic devices does you poem have? There is a correlation between the structure of the poem and the verbs used. Almost to the point that he is unsure of his existence. Well, for one thing, the language is very basic.
His narrators are often close to nature, wandering in woods, in snowstorms and picking apples. Like other modernist poets, he wrote his poems in ways that were new and different when he was writing, at the beginning of the 20th century. The higher power here being mother nature itself is simply indifferent towards the person adding on to the poems message of the insignificance of one life compared to everything. Robert Frost wrote in new ways, but still kept some traditional characteristics. He yearns for the simplicity of childhood and ends the poem with the famous line, 'One could do worse than become a swinger of birches. As a follow-up posting, ask a question of your own or post whether you agree or disagree, and why, with a classmate's interpretations.
The last line begins with two soft syllables so it creeps up on the reader. With ironic undertones throughout, the poem contains hints of remorse due to choosing a path without much knowledge about either. Finally, a connection can be made between The Most of It and Black Rook in Rainy Weather by Plath. I really like the analysis that you did, I think the idea of the person being very lonely could be very accurate, but at the same time I cant help but wonder if this is the same situation as the Road not Taken. He also lived in the countryside and used mostly natural images in his poems. The two speakers are similar in the fact that they focus on the theme of faith and doubt, one passage based on questioning the existance of God and his design while the other focuses on his faith and loneliness.
A deer symbolizes natures power that is not be restrained. This change of pronoun shows that the speaker is seeking human contact, not isolation, or else he would not say that all animals cry out for a response from other animals. And he wrote poems that were not always optimistic. The author is questioning the existence of God and of nature. I had the good fortune to see her speak a few years ago in a small, intimate venue, poorly attended - most of the attendees being students fulfilling a classroom requirement. He also lived in the countryside and used mostly natural images in his poems. They both had used scenes of nature to capture the lack of comfort they possess of god.
Legacy Frost was the most widely admired and highly honoured American poet of the 20th century. In those lines, he says again that one of them was less traveled than the other. The identity of the speaker plays a small role, if any, to establishing the true meaning and essence of each poem. In hindsight, his regret is everlasting in this case point. I believe there can be a reasonable standard. What a terrible moment that would be to stand there with the heavy weight of the fawn and the wilderness he claims is listening. But unlike other modernist poets, Frost stuck to using traditional meter and rhyme.
Although they are the individuals that create the poems and there themes, the main ideas of each poem is more significant than who created them. The things that make 'The Road Not Taken' modernist include simple language, the fact that the poem is unclear and the not-quite-happy mood of the poem. In design it is as if man is questioning if there is a God, then why does he create so much evil. You might say he was caught between two movements: the traditional movement and the modernist movement in poetry. However, there is a second way to interpret this. He and Elinor married in 1895 but found life difficult, and the young poet supported them by teaching school and farming, neither with notable success. Irony: The heal-all is a medicinal.
Frost uses the theme of nature and isolation of an individual amongst his other poems as well as this one. Here, Frost revisits the scene of North of Boston in a strikingly different form. Finally, the modernists often left their poems vague and open to interpretation by the reader. Mankind In both poems, the speakers portray a feeling of mistrust, and confusion that leaves for questioning. In both poems the speaker questions God and the idea that every thing if not most things in life is apart of something bigger.
Moreover, they integrate form and content to stunning effect. Sir Robert Peel was a prominent figure in forming the modern concept. Frost soon found himself besieged by magazines seeking to publish his poems. Finally, the modernists often left their poems vague and open to interpretation by the reader. Other Poems Robert Frost wrote many modernist poems besides 'The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost leaves the final sentence of the poem to allow for readers to decide if the man is satisfied with this response from the universe or disappointed.