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A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and William Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark." The writer argues that Frost's focus is more personal, as he talks about a major decision that set the direction for his life. Stafford, on the other hand, takes a more general approach, as he offers a metaphor that describes life in general. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Frost and Stafford, Travel Poems Research Compiled
By - November, 2011 properly! Robert Frosts "The Road Not Taken" and
William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each individual along the way. However, while the poems share this common theme,
they are also approach it from completely different perspectives. Close examination of the poems reveals that Frosts focus is more personal, as he talks about a major decision that set
the direction for his life. Stafford, on the other hand, takes a more general approach, as he offers a metaphor that describes life in general. The poetic composition of
each poem is very different. The Frost poem consists of four stanzas of five lines each, which employ both rhyme and rhythm. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB and the rhythm
is iambic tetrameter. Staffords poem, with its four quatrains and closing couplet, is in free verse and its rhythm, while not strictly regular, reminds readers of iambic pentameter. As this
indicates, the greatest similarity between the poems is thematic. In the Frost poem, the speaker stands in a "yellow wood," which can be understood metaphorically as symbolizing the mid-life,
at a fork in the road (Frost line 1). Both roads were equally "fair" (Frost line 6) and worn "about the same" (line 10). In the back of his
mind, the speaker "kept the first for another day" (Frost line 13), but he realized as he made this decision that he would probably never return to take the option
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