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Amazing Poetry Homework . Perla Castro . Wednesday February 12 D.I.D.L.S . “The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost .
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Amazing Poetry Homework Perla Castro
The diction used is abstract, descriptive and technical. Words such as “travel”, “come back” and “Two roads illustrate the narrators personal journey describes through the poem. In using “I” the reader can see that the poem is in first person. The word “road” and “Two” used is not literal but describes the different options life has. Diction
Robert Frost appeals to the readers sight. Imagery is portrayed through this whole poem He is describing the two paths in which he has to choose from. • “yellow wood” • “grassy and wanted wear;” • “leaves” • “equally worn” • The images depicted are vibrant and bring the poem to life. Images
The poet is depicting that the narrator has two paths to choose but is debating on which one to take. • “I could not travel both” • “Better claim” • “looked down as far as I could” • Robert Frost does not say which path the narrator choose. He leaves it to the readers imagination. The reader can also so he hestiated in describing which one he choose “I---- I” • “I took the one less traveled by,” • “has made all the difference” Details
The poem has 3 stanza’s of lines. The first one introduces that there are two paths to choose from, the second and third describe the different roads and the fourth illustrates the path chosen which is “less traveled by” one can infer that it is the more difficult one. The sentences flow well together and have a “ABAAB” pattern. The impression left is a decision made in life, unsure and uncertain but taken anyway. Sentence Structure
The diction used in this poem is negative, positive, and abstract. The poet uses words such as “Fire”, “hate” and “Ice”, “desire” to imply differences between good and evil. Frost makes the reader think in using opposites and their meanings. Diction
The poet appeals the to the readers sight. He creates an image in the readers mind of the different destructions of “Ice” and “Fire.” • “End in fire” • “destruction ice” Images
The details in this poem implying the relationship between love and hate (Fire and Ice.) The narrator chooses love over hate. Love can be more powerful and can last longer than hate can. The narrator also implies that he would also favor hate implying that there is a equal amount in the world. Details
The overall use of language is figurative in comparing “Fire and “Ice”. The language is simple but has a clear meaning. The poet uses juxtaposition in choose two opposite objects “Fire” and “Ice”. The whole poem could be considered as symbolism between love and hate. The narrator is talking about his own opinion and others, “world”, “those” and “I” Language
The poem is a stanza of 9 short lines. They flow very well together and have a ABAB rhyming scheme. The emotional impression left is that the world is filled with both and hate and love. The shortness of the poem add to the meaning in making it sharp and clear without too much description. Sentence Structure
The diction used in this poem is figurative, simple, positive, negative and descriptive. The author is depicting the relationship between a parent and her child. The child doesn’t not bond with the parent and expressed her feelings with writing. • “My Daughter is writing a story” • “stairwell, hearing” • “great cargo” • “reject my thought” • “clearing the sill of the world” • “Of life or death” Diction
The poet appeals to the readers sight and emotions. The images depicted are lonely, sad and detailed. “Lucky passage”, “house seems to be thinking”, “try it again” and “I wish” illustrate the journey the daughter and parent are taking. They are not close to each other it also depicts that the parent is lonely and merely observes their daughters actions. Images
There is a daughter in the house typing all the time. The narrator then goes on to compare the daughter to a starling that was stuck in the same room she was. It is figurative language to the lifestyle the daughter is living. The parent is alone and is worried about his daughters life and the way she deals with situations. • “What I wished you before, but harder.” • “Of her life…..some of it heavy:” • “Like a chain hauled over a gunwale.” • “Dazed starling” • “humped and bloody: • “I had forgotten” Details
The overall use of language in this poem is literal, figurative, and clear. The impression left is the teenager/parent relationship. Teenagers are constantly doing things which they shouldn’t and parents get mad. The relationship is not connected and expressed which makes up all the writing the daughter does. “I”, “Young she is”, “bunched clamor” and “darling” conveys the parent’s view and love towards their daughter. The story of the “dazed starling” expressed the parents feeling of her child filled with failures and enclosed. Language
The sentence structure used in this poem is describing the daughters life to the story of the starling then goes to the parent’s wishes of her daughters life. There is no rhyming scheme. Reid uses long and short sentences, and short stanzas to point out what the emphasize is. It depicts the poets longing of a connection. The emotional impression left is that there is a lovely and misunderstanding parent wanting to have communication with their daughter. Sentence Structure
