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        <title><![CDATA[The Road Taken would not be a good choice for the poem simply because it...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Road Taken would not be a good choice for the poem simply because it does not relate to the subject or theme of Robert Frost's poem. That title would not relate to 'The Road Others Took' or 'The Road More Traveled' which was the route rejected by Robert Frost himself - the road he chose turned out to be the right one - for him at least, it might not be for everyone. For him, the busier (safer?) one turned out to be the road that 'made all...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The premise of the title of "The Road Taken" lauds or praises the paths...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The premise of the title of "The Road Taken" lauds or praises the paths others take.  The essence of the poem is to stir up or galvanize support for the path others do not take.  In some respects, the speaker finds distinction and a sense of valor in doing what the road that others did not take.  In its description, the speaker highlights the significance in doing something apart from others.  If the poem is entitled "The Road Taken," this...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA["The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost.  It is one of my...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost.  It is one of my personal favorite poems because it is about a person who makes the choice to lead his life different form the way he is expected to lead his life.  I believe that by using the title the "Road not Taken' the writer is conveying the message that he could have chosen the same ordinary road as everyone else.  He is talking more about what he chose not to do.  If he had titled the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:31:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The answer to this question relies on your understanding of human...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The answer to this question relies on your understanding of human nature. You are in twelfth grade now, making choices about what you will do after high school. Will you go to college?  Which college will you attend?  Will you get a job? What job?  No matter what road you go down, you will wonder once in awhile what would have happened if you had gone down another road.  It is a condition of human existence that we cannot, as the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is an interesting question because most people pay attention to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is an interesting question because most people pay attention to the end of the poem, which talks about the road that the speaker did take...
To me, the reason why "The Road Taken" would not be a suitable title is because the "The Road Not Taken" adds to the meaning of the poem by emphasizing its contradictions and uncertainties.
The poem is talking about how all roads essentially are the same and we only convince ourselves that they are...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:09:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain why "The Road Taken" would not be a suitable title for the poem.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain why "The Road Taken" would not be a suitable title for the poem.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:01:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In this poem the dilema is when the character does not know which road...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this poem the dilema is when the character does not know which road to take. he sees that one of the roads is worn out and it was the mostly prefered. for me these roads are like our lives. because there comes a time in life when we stop and question what our future choice will be. but in the end this character was satisfied with his choice and gave a sigh of relief.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:10:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Antithesis, according to wikipedia is defined as:

a figure of speech in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Antithesis, according to wikipedia is defined as:

a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins” : his sermons were full of startling antitheses.

Robert Frost uses antithesis when deciding which road he wants to travel. He wants to travel both but realizes it's...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:35:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The extended metaphor of this poem is that of a road in the forest...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The extended metaphor of this poem is that of a road in the forest which forks into two paths; the path is the journey of life, and the forks are symbolic of the choices people make (or don't make) as they live out their invidividual lives.  The most excruciating part of making a choice, for many people, lies in what they may miss when forsaking the other choice--in other words, what they miss on "the road not taken."  Frost describes...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[To my way of thinking, the whole poem is metaphorical.
If you take the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To my way of thinking, the whole poem is metaphorical.
If you take the poem literally, there is very little metaphor in the poem.  The only place where you can really argue that metaphor is being used in this line:

Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.

This is metaphorical because he's not really saying that he's going to keep following various roads and be unable to ever return to the spot where he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:07:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Antithesis is a figure of speech in which contrasting ideas are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Antithesis is a figure of speech in which contrasting ideas are juxtaposed by a parallelism of words.
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        <title><![CDATA[One of the definitions of antithesis (in literary terms) is some passage...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of the definitions of antithesis (in literary terms) is some passage in which opposite, or nearly opposite, ideas are both presented as truth.
So, in antithesis, the author gives us two ideas and says they are both true even though we know they can't really be.
So where in the poem does this happen?  I'd say the whole second stanza shows antithesis.  Let's look at it:

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:58:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are one or two instances of a metaphor that is used in "The Road...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are one or two instances of a metaphor that is used in "The Road Not Taken"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you tell me the line in "The Road Not Taken" that shows antithesis?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you tell me the line in "The Road Not Taken" that shows antithesis?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is one of the most comprehensive...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is one of the most comprehensive instances of a poem written in purely figurative language. Language of poetry is always figurative or metaphorical in terms of the symbolic import of its images. But Frost's poem is all the more figurative simply because it operates entirely on a universal and strictly non-particular level of the generic. There is no spatio-temporal reference, no periodization, not a single...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The dilemma of this poem is for us! The dilemma is deciding what Robert...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The dilemma of this poem is for us! The dilemma is deciding what Robert Frost meant in his poem 'A Road Not Taken.'As so many people respond so differently to this (including some of the many 'learned critics' who have been cited here and in other questions and answers) we might as well all say how we individually respond to the poem, as has been done by various posters. We can remember that poetry is subjective - we all arrive at a poem from...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A similar question was asked not too long ago (see the link below).
In...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A similar question was asked not too long ago (see the link below).
In my response to that question, I challenged the popular reading of the poem. I wrote:

I see the Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" in a very different way than the two previous posters. My reading is supported by at least two reputable sources, which are identified at the end of this posting. Both sources state that the poem can be read one way on the surface (readers often...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A similar question was asked not too long ago (see the link below).
In...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A similar question was asked not too long ago (see the link below).
In my response to that question, I challenged the popular reading of the poem. I wrote:

I see the Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" in a very different way than the two previous posters. My reading is supported by at least two reputable sources, which are identified at the end of this posting. Both sources state that the poem can be read one way on the surface (readers often...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The whole point of the poem is the dilemma of the speaker and how he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The whole point of the poem is the dilemma of the speaker and how he agonizes over how to resolve it.
He comes to a crossroads in a wood and doesn't know which way to go.  He tries to figure out which way to go, but each time he sort of decides on going one way, he thinks about how the other way seems just as good.
So the poem sees him sort of outthink himself -- thinking first one thing and then the other.  By the end of the poem he tells...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:58:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The central issue in the poem is one of choice.  If the first stanza is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The central issue in the poem is one of choice.  If the first stanza is the exposition of the poem, it outlines the fundamental dilemma that faces many in consciousness.  The speaker of the poem is faced with two choices and can only select one.  There is a level of agony within this idea of incompatible courses of action.  The remainder of the poem examines the criteria behind why the speaker selected the chosen path.  This is very...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:49:53 PST</pubDate>
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