the events leading up to the conclusion key points of the story, because they can give underlying motives, lessons, and ideas that could be overlooked when viewing the destination as the main idea. In “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “A Worn Path,” two diverse journeys are portrayed. Each journey describes the hardships of life and death and the lack of knowledge of how to prepare for future events; each writing also depicts the thought that the journey lies in the events
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To begin with, there are four elements to a story: theme, setting, and point of view. Each of the elements is a part of every story, but some may play a more important role in the telling of each individual tale. In “A Worn Path”, the theme though out the story is about a strong undying love an old woman has for her grandchild. According to Clugston 2010, the theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story. Every story narrows a broad underlying idea, shapes it in a unique
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The speaker in this poem starts standing in the woods, considering which fork to take in the road. Both ways seem to be the same to the reader, equally worn out and overtaken with leaves. The speaker chooses a path, and tells himself that one-day he will go back and take the other. Deep down he knows there isn’t a big chance that he will have the opportunity to do so. He discusses in the poem that someday in the future he will do the same scenario as the last except he claims he will take the road
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reading and sometimes, what they see and the way they interpret what they read might be different from the interpretation that the author want them to have. For example, the poem entitled “The Road Not Taken” and the short narratives entitled “A Worn Path” and “Used to Live Here Once” all have the same theme but when read together by different people and asked what do they think of the stories, they might give different descriptions. These stories and poem deal with one thing which is the main character’s
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themselves and their intent is shown through their decisions in life. In The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin, shows how some may not be content with their goal harming others. In Robert Frost’s poem, The Road, it teaches us to go down the path that will help the goal more. In the song Unwritten, by Natasha Bedingfield it says to live life without a plan. Goals become evident in the decisions that people choose to make. When setting a goal, it must be worked toward for it to ever be attained
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one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear,Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere
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as for that the passing there 10. Had worn them really about the same, Line explanation: He changes his mind and says that both roads look the same. Summary of Stanza 2: The speaker selects the road that appears at first to be less worn and therefore less traveled. This suggests that he has an independent spirit and does not want to follow the crowd. But the speaker cannot make up his mind because after a moment, he says that both roads are equally worn. [pic] Stanza 3 11. And both that
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The poem was written in 1916, when there were scarcely cars around so the imagery in this stanza depicts that the roads were most likely worn out paths with a lot of yellow leaves on the ground. In lines 2-3, the speaker wants to go down both roads but realizes he cannot be on two roads at the same time. He appears regretful that he cannot travel down both paths and so he stands there initially hesitant. The word “stood” in line 3 suggests he was not driving a car. The line “And Looked Down One As
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emotion towards that object or scene. Van Gogh helps illustrate his life within this painting, the shoes in the painting are peasant shoes and he was a peasant growing up and could not sell his own artwork until after death. The painting Shoes the shoes worn out, so most wouldn’t even look at them or think about getting the shoes. At the end of the day don’t judge someone by the shoes they are walking
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climax, denouement, and coda” (Threadgold 231). The setting takes place in a “yellow wood” (Frost 127) where two paths diverge, and the complication comes from deciding which of the two paths the narrator should travel along. The climax arrives when the narrator finds himself torn between his decision and is shortly followed by the denouement when he makes his decision on which path to take, concluding with saying “and that has made all the difference” (Frost 127): the coda. Frost’s poem is also
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