First Reading The teacher will distribute copies of the poem with the last word missing from each line | Â The fairytale-like language also accentuates the way the poem slowly launches into a conjuring trick |
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Each of these poems takes a different approach, theme and setting to convey their own message while maintaining similar themes | And then it becomes clear the neither road has been travelled much at all |
However, there is significance in the difference between what the speaker has just said of the two roads, and what he will say in the future.
What if there was a festival that was just about the purity of ideas | Do you think the poet was sure of coming back to that road some day? It is a region of isolated farms and lonely roads, and it is in writing about that landscape that Frost merges the traditional with the modern to become a writer who is simultaneously terrifying and comfortable |
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Answer: No, the poet is not happy with his choice | Whichever road he chooses, the speaker, will, presumably, enjoy a walk filled with pleasant fall foliage |
So, faced with these two roads — these two, to all intents and purposes, equal roads — Frost chose one on a whim.
22Do you think the decisions we make will affect our future? After all, Frost might more easily and obviously have written the stanza like so emphasis mine : Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both To where they ended, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth | However, as the poem reveals, that design arises out of constructed narratives, not dramatic actions |
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What do the two roads stand for? Were you happy about the decision or did you regret it later? Not just more touch, but more time | He chose the second road which was not taken yet |
Answer: The poet was not sure of his coming back to that road some day.
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