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The Road Not Taken, By Langston Hughes

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Often in life, people read literature that speaks to them on a spiritual level, to the point they can relate it to their personal life. This is definitely the case with me, throughout my short life I have read tons and tons of literature, good to bad, short to long, slow to fast. It seems as though poems, are the most abstract form of literature, given that, they are excellent pieces of work that have meanings that are meant to connect to the reader, on many different levels. Two very special works of literature, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Dreams” by Langston Hughes seem to connect with me better than others, I feel that I can apply the meanings of these poems to my personal life on a spiritual, logical, and emotional level. …show more content…

I remember reading some of his poems as a child, some of his easier poems of course. As I grew older, I begin to realize his importance to poetry, and read more of his meaningful works of literature. One particular poem, “ The Road Not Taken” is a poem that I read and connected with. This poem is one of Frost’s most popular piece of art, and I agree. Basically, “The Road Not Taken” is about a person who is at a crossroad, a fork in a “path”. He is deciding which path he should take, he chooses the path that he thinks is fitting. The speaker then thinks and reflects about what it would be like to go back to that path, and see what’s on the other side, knowing that he may never get that opportunity again. The way this poem resonates with is through it’s basic idea. Often in life, I feel that I am at some kind of crossroad in my life, and I must act upon it. I usually choose wisely, but in the end I still long to go back to that opportunity, and I wonder,“what if”. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is an abstract work of art, that resonates with me on a greater scale than others, due to it’s theme and

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