Blog #8

For tonights poetry readings I particularly liked The Road Not Taken, Shakespeares Sonnet 18, and A Noiseless Patient Spider. I liked Frosts "The Road Not Taken" because of its first person perspective and its intricate descriptions of nature. You can imagine the scenery that the author describes, he is in a yellow forest and is trying to decide which path to take. I also found some of the figurative narrations interesting such as roads. There are the roads we walk and drive on and the roads that we take in life, and for every road we take, there is the road that we dont take. The road splitting in the woods is a metaphor for choice. The narrator also can't see all the way down either path, which is true to the metaphor, because we can only see so far into the future with the choices we make. In the end of the poem the narrator claims that by taking the road less traveled it has made all the difference, meaning that the road the speaker took has had a significant impact on his life.