![]() On the other hand, the common denominator of “gullible readers” and “discerning readers” is the meaning derived them from the poem which says that “our life-shaping choices are irrational, that we are fundamentally out of control.” (Lentricchia, n.d., as cited in Savoie, 2004, p. Lentricchia also believed that he did so to place his poem in the Atlantic to earn and pave the way for his other works (Savoie, 2004, p. To account for the “seeming contradiction” in Frost’s poem, Lentricchia, according to Savoie, attacked the “clichés of image and thought,” the “myth of autonomous selfhood” and the “Fireside poetic form” with clichés. While the New Critical could not explain the “lies” in Frost’s poem, explanation may be found with the New Historicism. Yet, to Bassett, according to Savoie, the persona in the poem prefers the lie over the truth and frequently referred to the “internal dissonance” as a “Frostian lie” (Bassett, 1981, as cited in Savoie, 2004). Simple, light to the ever busy minds, the poem is easy to digest (Barron, December 13, 2004). Both routes would provide two different experiences that the character wishes to experience, yet knowing as well that it would be impossible. In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost describes a regular walk in the woods and encountering a split in the trail, the persona momentarily ponders on his dilemma on which route to take. Embedded in his poems are allusions of tolerable levels (Pritchard, 1994). He used plain everyday language and focused on rural life. He wrote his poems using the rhyme and meter of traditional English verse. As the turn of the century apparently allowed literature to metamorphose from romanticism, realism, naturalism to modernism, Frost seemed wedged somewhere in between. ![]() 11).įrost’s style certainly differed from his modernist contemporaries: Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and T.S. Winters, as cited by Savoie, considered the poem “flawed yet perfectly representative of Frost’s poetry as a whole” and considers the poem as suffering from the “careless philosophy of a fallen ‘Emersonian romantic… without Emerson’s religious conviction” (Winters, as cited in Savoie, 2004, p. The poem having lines such as “ And both that morning equally lay” and later on contradicted by another line “ I took the one less traveled by/ And that has made all the difference” received quite a number of criticisms and admirations alike. As Louis Untemeyer noted Frost succeeded because he took “an unikely path as a twentieth-century poet,” (Untemeyer, 1951, as cited in Savoie, 2004). ![]() 8) who set out with his poetry differently. ![]() In addition, more commonly, according to Savoie, take the poem as “affirmation to individuality” (2004) because most readers overlook the persona in the poem and put emphasis on the author’s biography instead (p. More so, it leads the readers to seek the author’s personal experience which may have influenced the writing of the poem. ![]()
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