1/31/2024 0 Comments Frost road not taken![]() Now that it is seen how William Stafford “Traveling Through the Dark” reflects on the reader we will see how Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” contrast from it but shares most of similarity. As given in the literary work or “Traveling through the Dark” as the light on the other side of the tunnel may be dark but it does not mean that one should not take the easy path of just driving away without looking at the consequences that life can bring you. This series of events are what shows how the author indents the importance of moral values and how life can take an unexpected road. ![]() We know that he is stopped by the life inside that run over deer of an unborn baby deer. “Beside the mountain road I hesitated,” what has stopped him in his intended path? Not everyone has the moral capability of stopping to think of the consequences but this is one of the main points or facts of the poem. The narrator sees this as a normal everyday occurrence and not something that could disturb him or anyone else for that matter, this is not seen unusual but there are sometimes moments in the middle of the ordinary which exceed the ordinary and bring us to a place we would never have thought we would be in. – “it is usually best to roll them into the canyon. The speaker discovering of a dead deer is not given as a traumatic or yet an unknown experience. Instead of swerving and avoiding the deer the speaker pulls over to move the deer off the side of the road. An analysis of the poem’s “plot” the poem opens with the speaker finding a dead deer on the side of the road. In life people often unexpectedly face crisis which puts to test our moral sensitivity. This is a very clear statement of the poems facts except that hesitation can hardly be rendered as distraughtly on the speaker’s part. In this moment he stops, being distraught by the decision he has to take. When he approaches the scene notices that the deer has a big belly meaning that she was about to give birth to a baby deer, at this point the narrator puts the main character in a tough decision making time just like life would be. ![]() Even when the finding of the dead deer is discovered it is not portrayed as a traumatic or the narrator proceeds with his unfortunate task. The title of this poem suggests a normal everyday occurrence. The meaning of the title suggests that the narrator is trying to make a difficult decision. In William Stafford’s poem “Traveling through the Dark”, the speaker is faced with making a morally tough decision, and with hesitation, he decides to do what is right. This is all connected to us as readers one way or another if it is taken from a personal point of view. The literary works of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” and William Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark” are about making life decisions and the lessons learned as we travel though life’s journey. Although making the right choices in life is not always easy. The contrast completely with William Stafford “Traveling Through the Dark” where even if a stranger is killed the perpetrator knows what he has to do and how he takes a decision when the events occurred. People always want to have everything at once but it is to show that it is impossible to have it all at the same time. And sorry I couldn’t not travel both” This showing use how unwilling the character is of not making a right decision, this is centered on how life can come with certain choices one must make but is very unclear on how to. In Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” we can see how many different aspects of life decision making comes in the form of symbolisms. The Road Not Taken: A Symbol of Life’s Choices
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