Long Live Robert Frost
“In 3 words I ran sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Meaning that no matter how hard it is life gives you multiple chances.Robert Frost is very famous and an oft-quoted poet and Frost wrote about life often in his work. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry. Frost was very intelligent, Elinor White, Robert’s wife was his was co-valedictorian at Lawrence High School. After high school, he attended a high-class school, Harvard University, Until his father died of tuberculosis. Robert Frost, an American poet, used themes nature, choices, and human destruction in his poetry.
Frost’s father was a journalist himself, maybe the reason Robert began writing to begin with. Robert was born on March 26,
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He concludes that the world must end in fire after considering his personal experience with desire and passion, the emotions of fire. Interestingly, the two possibilities for the world’s destruction correspond directly to a common scientific debate during the time Frost wrote the poem. Some scientists believed that the world would be incinerated from its fiery core, while others were convinced that a coming ice age would destroy all living things on the earth’s surface. Instead of maintaining a strictly scientific perspective on this debate, Frost introduces a more emotional side, associating passionate desire with fire and hatred with ice. Within this metaphorical view of the two elements, the “world” can be recognized as a metaphor for a relationship. Too much fire and passion can quickly consume a relationship, while cold indifference and hate can be equally destructive. Yet, after considering his experience with “ice”,or hatred, he acknowledges that ice would be equally destructive. They can do the same amount of damage. Although the first two lines of the poem insist that there can only be a single choice between fire and ice, Moreover, the fact that he has had personal experience with both (in the form of desire and hate) reveals that fire and ice are not mutually exclusive, as the first two lines of the poem insist. In fact, though the narrator first concludes that the world will …show more content…
The speaker opts for the other road and, once already on it, declares himself happy because it has more grass and not many folk have been down it. And anyway, he could always return one day and try the 'original' road again. Would that be possible? Perhaps not, life has a way of one thing leading to another and before anyone knows it, change has occurred, and returning is just no longer an option.But who knows what the future holds down the road? The speaker implies that, when he's older he might look back at this turning point in his life, the morning he took the road less travelled, because taking that particular route completely altered his way of being. The Road Not Taken has entered the modern conscAt heart, this poem is about choice: how one decision can change a person's entire life. The speaker choose one path over another, and that, he says, "has made all the difference." The fork in the road is symbolic of the choice the speaker has to make about his life. Each path corresponds to a different direction his life may take, so he has to choose carefully.iousness and one or two of its lines are now embedded in the collective memory. Just think about 'the road less travelled' and the title itself - both are often used in a confused way,