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This is a 9 page paper that provides an overview of symbolism in Frost, Welty, and Rhys. The symbol of the journey is empowered by the acknowledgement of death. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of a skilled author, but it goes without saying that the mere usage of a symbol is not sufficient to qualify as "skillful". Indeed, many examples of symbols, even from
established literary classics, are overbearing and used so often that they seem to be divested of any potent meaning they might once have possessed. One such example of an overused
symbol is that of the journey; since the days of the ancient Sumerian and Greek epics, the journey has been used in literature as a metaphor for the progression of
the human life. While this abundant usage of such a common symbol threatens to devalue the use of the symbol through overexposure, skillful authors are still able to effectively make
use of even hackneyed symbols by placing them in a context which lends them additional nuance and depth. For instance, the three works of literature, Robert Frosts "The Road Not
Taken", Eudora Weltys "A Worn Path", and Jean Rhys "I Used to Live Here Once", all make use of the symbol of the journey to represent the progression of human
life, but the true thematic depth of these works is revealed in the respective authors seating of the symbol in the context of death, and it is because of the
placement of a familiar symbol in this all too familiar context that readers have been able to derive value from such stories for decades. Frosts poem tells the story
of a traveler in a woods who must choose between forked paths, while both Weltys and Rhyss stories tell of the arduous trek of an old woman along an arduous
road or path; in all three, the path is intuitively understood to be a metaphor for life. This facile use of metaphor seems out of place for such respected authors,
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