Analysis Of The Poem The Road Not Taken By Gwendolyn...

For my analysis I chose to look at two poems where the authors transform the readers into the speakers. I will be analyzing â€Å"The Road Not Taken† by Robert Frost and â€Å"the mother† by Gwendolyn Brooks. Both of these poems show decisions made on the speakers part and how the reader can relate to the speakers feelings about their decisions. â€Å"The Road Not Taken† opens with a man in the woods, looking down two equally worn paths. It is a reflection on his part. This incident happened in the past and years later he is looking back at it. He recalls trying to look down both paths to see where they go, but both paths are so jagged that he can’t see very far into them. Therefore he must chose a path to take blindly and without a specific reason. He dislikes this. The speaker wishes that he could take both path, so he could know two different possibilities, and therefore be able to make a decision on which is better. But he can’t, so he decides to pick the path that is grassier. This is a superficial reason, which he knows. Both paths have been equally traveled, but since he knows he has no reason to pick one path over the other he decides to look for something that stands out, which here is the extra grassiness of one path. He understand the implication of him choosing that path. He knows that one pa th will lead to such a different and far destination from the other that he will never be able to go back and try the other path as well. He says with a sense of forlorn that he does wishShow MoreRelatedInterpretation of the Text13649 Words   |  55 Pageswe have, then, is an independent little world made of words: a world of forms, images, and sounds that are all designed to work together. This does not mean that works of literature have nothing to do with reality. On the contrary, Walt Whitmans poems often address the reader directly; Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn has everything to do with the history of American slavery; and when Emily Dickinson writes, 1 never hear the word escape Without a quicker †¢blood, she is surely expressing her ovm feelings