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This 5 page paper examines three poems: “The Road Not Taken” by Frost; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot; and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay; and what they might have in common. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Not Taken" by Frost; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot; and "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay; and what they might have in common. Discussion
Well begin by analyzing each poem, and then see what connections we can find among them. Robert Frosts poem "The Road Not Taken," like all of his work, is deceptively
simple, but has a great depth of meaning in a few lines. The poet tells us that he stood one morning in a "yellow wood," at a point where there
is a fork in the road (Frost). He stands for a long time, looking down first one road, then the other. Hed like to walk down both, but thats obviously
impossible; he has to make a choice (Frost). He thinks that perhaps he can take one path today, and the other on a subsequent visit, but knowing how life works,
and how "way lead on to way," theres a good chance he will never be back (Frost 219). In the end, he decides to walk the path that looks as
though it has been "less traveled," and that, he says "has made all the difference" (Frost 219). Frosts poem works on several levels. First, there is the surface level, that
he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a much deeper level, the poem talks about the choices everyone faces
in their daily lives; things we do that change everything that we can never take back. We choose one person to marry, or perhaps we stay single-this choice can determine
much of the rest of our lives. Or we take this job, not that one; go to this church and not one; and so on. The poem is really about
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