Poetry Description
Modernism: (1890-1950)A multinational cultural movement that started in the 19th century and reached its peak during world war I. It had different ideas of poetry, then before the Industrial Revolution and War World I, it grew out of its scientific, and political ideas. Some novelist like Henry James and Virginia Woolf experimented with shifts in time and a narrative point of view. the poetry was something new and different than poems before. In 1922, T.S Eliot published The Waste Land which included allusions, linguistic fragments and mixed registers and languages. For artist and writers, the modernist project was a re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of their predecessors. It evolved from the romantic rejection of Enlightenment positivism and faith in reason. Some poets in the movement were H.D., W.H Auden, Hart Crane, William Bulter Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot.
Poem Analysis
Robert Frost
The Road not taken By: Robert Frost
This poem to me seems like a metaphor for a big decision the person has to make, the person is in a fork in the road and he doesn't know which one to take. In the poem the decision is compared to a fork in the road, the person is thinking of which one to take the one that is regularly taken by people or take a risk and take the way people normally don't take. As he stands there thinking about his decision and what he/she will do. In the end the traveler decides to take the road people don't travel on."Two roads diverged in a wood,and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." I think what the poem is trying to say is that, the traveler is explaining, it was a risk but in the end it effected their decision greatly.
This poem to me seems like a metaphor for a big decision the person has to make, the person is in a fork in the road and he doesn't know which one to take. In the poem the decision is compared to a fork in the road, the person is thinking of which one to take the one that is regularly taken by people or take a risk and take the way people normally don't take. As he stands there thinking about his decision and what he/she will do. In the end the traveler decides to take the road people don't travel on."Two roads diverged in a wood,and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." I think what the poem is trying to say is that, the traveler is explaining, it was a risk but in the end it effected their decision greatly.
Literary Devices
Personification: "And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no Step had trodden black."
~The personification in these stanza, is that Robert Frost is giving characteristics to the roads as they are laying as humans.
Metaphor: "I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~The whole poem to mean seems as a metaphor to a decision the traveler has to take, but I think these lines sum it up, that he made the decision with the most risk and that changed his life, or impacted greater then the choice everyone else takes.
Imagery: " And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,"
~This stanza basically describes how the two roads looked to the traveler, they both looked similar except one wasn't as worn out, and was really grassy and that it was waiting for people to travel on it.
In leaves no Step had trodden black."
~The personification in these stanza, is that Robert Frost is giving characteristics to the roads as they are laying as humans.
Metaphor: "I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~The whole poem to mean seems as a metaphor to a decision the traveler has to take, but I think these lines sum it up, that he made the decision with the most risk and that changed his life, or impacted greater then the choice everyone else takes.
Imagery: " And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,"
~This stanza basically describes how the two roads looked to the traveler, they both looked similar except one wasn't as worn out, and was really grassy and that it was waiting for people to travel on it.