In the poem, “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker has to make a big decision in his life. This poem talks about a person who comes across an intersection or a fork in the road and he has to choose which way to follow. The road is a metaphor of the choices we make in life. As the speaker ponders his choices, he feels strongly that whatever “road” he takes will be for good. So he must weigh his decision well in order to come up with the best choice and not end up regretting it. The speaker considers his thought wisely. He says, “And looked down as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth”, by giving it a proper thought he weighs his choices well and in the end, chooses to follow the road “less traveled”. “The Road Not Taken” signifies a difficult choice in a person’s life that could offer him an easy or hard way out. There is no assurance of what lies ahead; if there will be success or sorrows. But a person has to take risk making up his mind about which way to choose because this is the first step of head…
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… woods, which are “lovely” as well as “deep and dark” (13).
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” provide us contrasting and sometimes similar glimpses of life. “The Road Not Taken” is about taking control and living life. “Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening” entails the desire for rest, perhaps due to the speaker’s feelings of weariness from facing life’s struggles. The poet also explains the tough choices people stand before when traveling the road of life. Sometimes people regret the possibilities of the road not chosen, sometimes people feel proud about the road they have chosen.
Works Cited:
1. Frost, Robert. Robert Frost’s Poems. Ed. Louis Untermeyer. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968. 194.
2. Frost, Robert. Robert Frost’s Poems. Ed. Louis Untermeyer. New York: Washington Square Press, 1968. 223.
College Admissions Essay: Social Responsibility
What can I do For You?
I want You to know
My heart is Yours
It’s not a question of what
You can do for me
But what can I do
For You?
These lyrics communicate a principle that can help in our daily lives with those around us: selflessness. So many people are in life just to see how much they can get out of it. But how does that help society? It does not except to drive the greed already rampant. So many people attend churches or take part in other religious activities trying to satisfy their need for a higher cause or social betterment, taking the values that are taught but often refusing to implement them, instead being satisfied merely with the dream of a better world. But the real answer to the question is another question: what can I do for you?
If everyone, including me, could only grasp the real meaning of all that could be accomplished with this attitude, the world could be a better place. But pictures of utopia are easier pained than lived, to coordinate this would be impossible, to be this selfless is difficult. Still, the fact remains that so much could be accomplished if everyone could just do a little. For many, however, this is just too much and they continue on through life as social parasites, sucking their existence from those who sacrifice for the good of all.