Psyche-A Critical Essay

2014

This critical essay argues that Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” is not a poem about taking a road less traveled but about regret and the state of the human psyche during the process of decision. Frost argues against indecisiveness and regret via the speaker’s battle to decidebetween two virtually identical roads—neither one more or less traveled than the other. Readers should look beyond the last two lines of Frost’s poem in order to develop a structured perspective concerning Frost’s point. Historical contextualization provides readers with a sense of the biographical elements of the poem, written in 1916 and inspired by his friend Edward Thomas. Thomas was indecisive about which path to take when they both proceeded into nature for a walk, giving Frost a beginning for the speaker in the poem. Close analysis of each stanza, reveals thatFrost’s “The Road Not Taken” has psychological implications of regret and uncertainty regarding decision-making and provides a solution by...

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts, and Sciences, 2017

– This expressive critical study is an effort to bring in light new interpretation of Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" as a reflection of his indecisiveness in life. Specifically, it aims at examining Frost's inner being, emphasizing his own self and experiences in the poem or text. The study employs the qualitative research design which made use of discourse analysis using the critical theory of expressivism as the main guide. In acquiring the data of the study, the art of historiography is used such as autobiographical and/or biographical notes, sources documents, and web information. Specifically, life histories and biographical methods served as the basis of the analysis. In executing the methods involved in this study, it is observed that the poem shows a naturalist implicatures, expressing Frost's strong feelings and emotions being devoid of free will and a narrow bit of confusions and ambiguities with his indecisions in life.

2015

Robert frost is one of the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious American poets of 20th century. He won four Pulitzer prizes during his life time. He gained lot of popularity not only in England but also in whole Europe. His poetry dealt with elements of nature, personal and social aspect of human beings. His themes are very inspirational and innovative.The aim of this paper is to analyze Robert Frost’s poem “The Road not taken”. This analysis is helpful in understanding the basic concept of poem that presents a contrast between right and wrong choices in life.

IJIRMPS, 2018

Robert Frost is considered as the greatest modern poets in American literature. During his life, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times for his outstanding contribution in poetry. He is regarded “The Voice of America.” He discusses natural, personal elements and the social piece that are related to the human being very aptly and minutely in his poetry. His poetry begins with delight and ends in wisdom. The themes of his poetry are very inspirational and innovative. Critics, scholars, and the general people cite his famous poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ as one of the mesmeric poems. The poem is about conflict regarding two possible choices in human life. Life is not a bed of roses; a man has to fall in indecision regarding choice. He has to take the right decision. In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the speaker believes that he will not put up with any grief due to his decision in the future. The purpose of the paper is to amplify conflicts regarding choices in human life with the assist of his renowned verse ‘The Road Not Taken.’

2023

This paper explored levels of stylistics analysis of the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost. Specifically, this analysis looked into phonological, morphological, graphological, and lexico-syntax levels of the poem mentioned. It was found that different linguistic and literary devices do not only add aesthetic and artistry to the poem but also the overall understandability of the message the poem is trying to put across.

This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics. Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. It seeks to account for the interpretative effects of a text through close study of its linguistic detail, such as syntactic structuring, semantic deviation, deixis, modality, etc. A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). In this write up, the value of the game considers the lexical choices in the poem " The Road Not Taken‛ by Robert Frost in the following categories: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, lexical categories such as synonymy, antagonymy, contradiction and their significance or effects in the poem.

Stylistic analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' using cognitive metaphor approach and biographical criticism.

Analysis and interpretation of the poem.

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is a ring composition three levels deep: 1 2 Ω 2’ 1’. The central section consists of lines 9 through 12 cuts across the boundary between the second (ll. 6-10) and third (ll. 11-14) stanzas. There is a subtle shift in tense in line 16 in which the poet in effect travels back into the past, at the moment of decision captured in the poem, so that he can anticipate the present moment in which the poem unfolds. Thus the end of the poem rejoins the beginning, not merely through the repetition of a line, but through a trick in time.

International Journal of English Language & Translation Studies, 2014

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a famous American Poet. As most of his poems are autobiographical in subject, it is evident that he has been mostly influenced by the environment around him in composing his masterpieces. Frost’s themes are very simple in the surface meaning endowed with an easily understandable diction and a liberal style of writing. Yet, a careful study of his works vividly reveals his greatness as a ‘true’ judge of various critical aspects associated with the everyday experiences of the humans. His major characters- the narrators in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Mending wall” and “The Road not Taken” are viewed as the real people with real struggles in real life. It is seen that Frost’s poetry is highly connotative and the same reader can interpret the poetry of Robert Frost in multiple ways in multiple settings. The present article aims at critically examining Frost’s ‘realistic’ and ‘rationalistic’ approaches in the elevation of human nature under the broad spectrum of human life. This article also aims at proving that no poem of Frost ends in an absolute imagination because Frost himself seems to believe in realism as the ultimate fate of the individuals though fancy and imagination provides a temporary relief to the disturbed soul.