Poetry is the one major type of literature that is, in most cases, completely open to interpretation. Together, “Unwelcome” and “The Road Not Taken” she a multitude of similarities and differences. While both poems use a similar theme and language, they differ in overall sound. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem written by Robert Frost that discusses the fact that people have free choice over their own lives. Each choice a person makes will affect and have a direct reaction on their life. Whether this is big or small, is up to descression. But, there will always be one that will make “all the difference” (Frost, 20). Frost uses vivid imagery throughout this piece of literature. He describes how the trail in the yellow wood “bent in the undergrowth” …show more content…
This poem could be open to a lot of meanings, but the one that truly sticks out is that life is changing, for everyone, but as individuals we are all going through the same change—even if you feel your change is significantly different. This is expressed especially where Coleridge talks about the “woman with the West in her eyes/And a man with his back to the East” (Coleridge, 15-16). Both of her characters are looking in the same direction but with two obviously different outlooks on what they are looking at. The beginning of the poem begins discussing a youthful lifestyle, and introduces the man and woman that are further discussed at the end of the poem. Vividly, Coleridge uses imagery to evoke a strong picture in the readers’ mind. She discusses a party and then leads into how the “rays of July struck chill/ The cups of red wine turned pale on the board/ The white bread black as soot” (Coleridge, 8-10). Talking about how the party of life had expired and the man woman were still looking in the same direction is a symbol of life and how each person has a path to follow. This poem is four, four lined stanzas’ that have a rhyme scheme of ABAB. This is another common rhyme scheme for works of this