To sum up, decision-making is in essence one inevitable part of life. Yet still, unavoidably, he has to make a choice (Napierkowski & Ruby, 1998). Something in his life is changing, forcing him to make a choice, and he was much troubled by indecision.
The path in the woods represents not only the road chosen by the narrator, but also a 2ĭecision in life. The path that the narrator is walking on is splitting into two directions, and he has to decide which way to go. 2.1.2.3 Implication The Road Not Taken centers on the concept of choice. One of them is rarely stepped on, and the other seems to hold infrequent traffic. There is a fork which leads to two separate roads. 2.1.2.2 Scene It is autumn in this poem –– the trees are turning colors, and the leaves are falling. Eventually, he thinks that the second one might be better because it holds little traffic, and thus keeps the first one for the future and chooses “the road less traveled by.” Nevertheless, the narrator expounds that he will recall this unforgettable experience in the future, and states that the choice will have a great significance in his life. He contemplates the similarities and differences of the two roads, feeling sorry that he can not travel both at the same time (Poirier, 1990). 2.1.2 Theme 2.1.2.1 Summary In The Road Not Taken, there is a fork in a yellow forest for the narrator to make a choice. 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. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Review of Previous Researches on The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 2.1 General Analysis of The Road Not Taken 2.1.1 Text Review 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 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear 1 The fourth section then concludes the research with a summary of the major findings. The third section further analyzes the similarities and the differences of the two poems at issue. The second section reviews major researches on the two individual poems. The first section presents the motivation, the goal and the organization of the current research. To achieve these aims, the present research consists of four sections. It is hoped that the results of the current analysis may offer some fresh insight into the two poems and shed some light on the appreciation of them from a different perspective, which is based on the premise that the narrators of both poems are making a choice. In light of the fact that there have been considerable analyses of the two poems yet little comparison of the two masterpieces, the importance of further research is evident.
This contention suggests that the comparison of these two poems should merit further investigation. However, these two poems are seldom compared with each other in related analyses, except in one by Draper (1992), who suggests that both of the poems depict situations of making a choice. Amid the many famous Nature poems, Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening have been widely discussed. Introduction Poems on nature have accounted for a main school in poetry.
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Kai-yu Yang (楊凱伃) Shao-yu Yen (嚴紹瑜) National Hsinchu Girls’ Senior High School Class 201
A Comparison between The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening