In the spring of 1915, Frost sent an envelope to Edward Thomas that contained only one item: a draft of “The Road Not Taken,” under the title “Two Roads.” According to Lawrance Thompson, Frost had been inspired to write the poem by Thomas’s habit of regretting whatever path the pair took during their long walks in the countryside-an impulse that Frost equated with the romantic predisposition for “crying over what might have been.” Frost, Thompson writes, believed that his friend “would take the poem as a gentle joke and would protest, ‘Stop teasing me.’”ĥ. Frost writes back on June 26, 1915: “Methinks thou strikest too hard in so small a matter. “The Road Not Taken” has confused audiences literally from the beginning. Would be pretty sure to fall forward over them in the dark.įorward, you understand, and in the dark.įROST TO LEONIDAS W. Set to trip the reader head foremost into the boundless.Įver since infancy I have had the habit of leaving myīlocks carts chairs and such like ordinaries where people
The present paper attempts to look at this concept of 'binary oppositions' in the poems of Robert Frost namely The Road Not Taken and The Armful.My poems-I should suppose everybody’s poems-are all It also prepares the reader to look through the 'given' constructs in the world, to distinguish between appearance and reality. It also assists in realizing the significance of maintaining vital cultural ideas, and at the same time, rising above cultural stereotypes that may be conflicting to keep pace in the progressing world. It helps in developing potent layers of meaning for a more refined analysis, through a better classification of the thematic features of a text. Comprehending the process of destabilizing the binary oppositions can make one, a competent reader to understand the basis of literary aspects and combinations in the text. It allows the readers an opportunity to travel beyond the conventional dualisms that direct the thinking. Structuralism is that probe with which, the reader is both delighted and challenged by the nuances of language. One of the strategic options not to lose so lies in the 'structuralist' approach. In this process, what she discovers brought her relief from the nagging pain of regret and expands her awareness of her multi-dimensional identity.Ī unidirectional thinking might make one lose many other or other experience. Mancini, invites a 72-year-old woman to redo a fateful choice she had made over fifty years ago and to experience profoundly a life very different from the one she "officially" had chosen so long ago.
Had he known and had the courage to embrace the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics and/or the metaphysics of Jane Roberts' Seth Material, he might have discovered that every choice he did not make did in fact get actualized, but in another universe, and that he could experience each of those discarded choices. Yet Frost did not have the courage or the metaphysics that could have, indeed, made possible what might otherwise appear impossible: to experience the life consequences of both choices. In one of his poems, Robert Frost posed the problem we all face, often many times: making a choice that, for one reason or another, precludes making a different one. 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. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices. A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. 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.
Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics.
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