Selected Poetry

This week’s two poems that I enjoyed most were “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, and “Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman.

            First I thought Frost’s poem was very enjoyable because I saw it as a what-if poem. Almost, like he went back in time to a point in his life and had two different roads he could’ve take. And he says how he took the less used one and doesn’t regret it one bit. This poem almost inspires me to do what he did and decide to take the harder road less travelled and do what I want, that’s why I connected with it.

            And next was the Whitman poem about a spider in the middle of nowhere just casting his web trying to grab hold to anything. I saw this as someone who is at a lonely stage in their life and they are just searching for anything, or anyone to have in their lives. This was somewhat of a depressing poem to me but really powerful just due to that thought of being a small lonely spider, in such a vast, but empty world.