Poem+Comparison

Poem Comparison: //The Road Not Taken// and //Realization// **7. The Road Not Taken ** Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,  And sorry I could not travel both  And be one traveler, long I stood  And looked down one as far as I could  To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 Then took the other, as just as fair,  And having perhaps the better claim  Because it was grassy and wanted wear,  Though as for that the passing there  Had worn them really about the same,

 And both that morning equally lay  In leaves no step had trodden black.  Oh, I marked the first for another day!  Yet knowing how way leads on to way <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I doubted if I should ever come back.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I shall be telling this with a sigh <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Somewhere ages and ages hence: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I took the one less traveled by, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> And that has made all the difference. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15. Realization ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am a different man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One who died  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and was reborn  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A boy man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Haunted by childhood  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A survivor  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A wiry man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full of rage  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One with little choice  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wrestling demons  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Welded to irony  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A kid minus a father  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A guy without dreams  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A hermit  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A hobbit  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A hungry man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cornered, imprisoned, beaten  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A fearful man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A lost soul  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plagued by personalities  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A living blank Humiliated but stubborn  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A disregarded man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A walker, a dancer, a runner  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An impatient man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A merciless victim  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A religious man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A singer of the heart  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An indignant man labeled man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Buried alive  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Neanderthal  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An android  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A metaphorical man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A disabled man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A violent man  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A dictator at war with wisdom  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A man condemned to victory Both of these poems have deep underlying theme, that relates to humanity. In //The Road Not Taken//, the theme is: when you "take the road less traveled by" and do what feels right, it will make all the difference in your life.In //Realization,// the theme is: how life can be difficult, but you will always be able to find a sense of hope. Both themes are about making a difference in your life. In contrast, //Realization// is about a man who had a difficult childhood, how it effected his life, and how he still has hope that it will improve. //The Road Not Taken (TRNT),// is about how he (the author) took a different path in life, and it improved his life. The themes are both similar in the sense that they are about quality of life. Both poems make good use of poetic devices to get the messages across clearly. Robert Boates used repetition in //Realization// to make it seem like a list of things that the "man" is. It made it even more of a serious, important poem. In //TRNT//, Robert Frost used this personification: "Because it was grassy and wanted wear.." as a way to pull you in and connect to the theme. It made it seem like it was the road that chose you to take it. Rhyme is used consistently in //TRNT// ("a, b, a, a, b" rhyme scheme) but not so much in  //Realization.// Both use imagery well, for example: "welded to irony" and "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood". It helps draw us in to the poem by making us use our imaginations. Hyperboles in R//ealization,// such as "Buried alive" were very important for enforcing the mood of the poem. Series' of metaphors in both poems, such as "One who died and was reborn..." and "The Road Not Taken" are important clues to the theme. These poems very nicely represent change in individual lives and society.