for madam- professor

Dear Nathan,

In short, I am feeling good for my first essay, because I follow my thinking to write it. I plan to write three paragraph which is introduction for each part of the poem, and make it explanation for each poem. At the end, I will writ the conclusion that telling about the whole poem. However, I would like to say English is my second language that sometime I feel difficult to know about the meaning of the poem. I know what is the poem telling to me, but it is hard to write the correct meaning, hope I have good explain for this essay. Also, I spend more and more time to read the poem to let me understand. I want to write a good explanation of the essay. The poem let people to think about their life, and would have diffident choose, but in the moment it have to choose one of the road. Each road would make people have different life and change, sometime might be effect our life in the future.

Thanks!

Jialin Chen

English 1B

Professor Nathen

02/13/2017

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost beings this short twenty-line poem, “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost encountered “two roads diverged in a yellow wood”, but “I could not travel both” (1-2). He found two roads diverged in a wood when he was walking. The roads can be apart that his is talking about the two roads, but the speaker can’t, which is meaning about his life have two different choices.. “long I stood”(3). He was trying to make a decision. It’s imperative to consider correctly and intensely which road was appropriated for him to travel. “And looked down one as for as I could” and “it bent in the undergrowth”(4-5). He used his eyes to observe one of the roads, but his eyes could not look at all he wanted. Because some part of the road were already being covered by the undergrowth that he could’t look at the roads which is changed.

After looking down the first road, he “took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim” (6-7). He decided to choose another roads because he hoped could have a different changed in his life such as another view and various roads. He had concerned that there might be a best change in his future life when he decided to travel one of the roads . When he decided the roads, “Though as for that the passing there”(9) he chose the roads because he thought these roads nobody walked before, so when he decided to walk on one of roads then give a different felling, and actually “ them really about the same”(10). When he walked inside the second road, he found that the one he walked is almost same with the one he gave up. Then, “both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black”(11-12). The leaves fell down on the floor in this morning. He found that nobody walked both of two roads.He hoped it could have the opportunity to look for another different roads while he had no experience yet, he thought that one day he would try it “I kept the first for another day”(13). However, he realized that “way leads on- to way”(14), expressed one road can lead to different consequence. He tried to cheer himself up by reassuring himself that he would return someday and walk the other road. Then, “I doubted if I should ever come back.”(15). it’s less likely to walk back and take the other road that he had not taken yet. he could go back the old place to chose other one he already gave up, but this chance is less possible.

At the end, “I shall be telling this with a sigh/ages and ages hence” (15-16). He thought that after many and many years, someday, he would tell this story with a sigh. In the future, he would recall about his choice. “Two roads diverged in wood, and I took the one less traveled by”(18-19), it means in the future, the speaker would tell that back at the moment that he finally made all the difference”(20). He didn’t say that this decision made him successful or not. All he knows is it would make his life difference. The speaker used the repetition to show us how difficult to make that decision. Life can not be replenished. Once you make the decision, it can lead you to another result. You can take a conventional route, or you can take the one less traveled by. The speaker sum up his poem and told us he took the road less traveled by, and it was one of the most important decision that make his life really different.

Words cite

Frost, Robert. “The Road Not taken”1916.