A poem, then, becomes a way to separate an audience into factions | Lost in the dark forest, the little boy rested in the undergrowth |
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Explain your choice, using specific reasons and details | For example, an eighteen year old teenager has to make a choice on which he is going to attend |
Defining the wood with one feature prefigures one of the essential ideas of the poem: the insistence that a single decision can transform a life.
27Frost had a barbed, nimble wit, and he would have had no trouble skewering romantic dithering more pointedly if that was all he had in mind | What is the significance of choosing a road? There are so many options before us but we are faced with the problem of right choice |
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What mattered to Frost was that his English trip had worked | As one moves, one road leads to another and life goes on |
The overall tone of the poem is of regret.
Students read their own copies and complete the missing words | ROBERT FROST Answer: Metaphor - The whole poem is an extended metaphor and the road acts as a metaphor for life |
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Why did the poet choose it? Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back | In Frost's words, Thomas was "a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other |
Theme After getting the symbols and representations, the teacher will let the students explore the poetic meaning of the poem with the aid of the symbolisms used.
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