Taken

In 2008, Twentieth Century Fox released the blockbuster film, Taken, an action-packed thriller that starred Irish actor, Liam Neeson. He played the character, Brian Mills, a former CIA government official. In the movie, he learns about his daughter’s abduction, while she and her girlfriend are visiting Paris, France. The viewer learns that his daughter had been abducted by an Albanian sex-trafficking gang, with the sole intent of selling Mills’ daughter as a prostitute in Europe. This movie truly exposes the shameful truth of a very real problem in today’s society. While Hollywood and television networks highlight the problem of modern slavery, the reality is that this type of enslavement is practiced throughout the world today. Slavery is…

Most people by the time they hit their late teens have been faced with at least one major life decision. Some of the options might have even looked the same. Without knowing what the future holds, you are forced to choose a path. That is the main idea behind the poem I chose to write about. Some might interpret Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” as a message to stand out from the crowd and take the roads less traveled by. However, upon further analysis of the voice and symbols, the theme…

Stitching the Story The average adult makes about 35,000 conscious decisions in a day. The majority are rather simple, but a handful of these will make a lasting impact in our life or in someone else's. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem that articulates the concept of decision making. Because decision making is such a run-of-the-mill task, it can often be related to various pieces of literature. For example, the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Mama, a rough and big boned…

On a cursory reading of Robert Frost’s 1915 poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Frost appears to be thinking that about the life choices pending a decision regarding which road to talk. Though this poem is known to be written by Frost in one of his vacant moods, the frame of mind of Frost is difficult to measure. Frost was right in analyzing his inner world when he wrote, “I’m never more serious than when joking” (Robinson, 2016). As such, literary critic and scholar David Orr (2016) is right when he…

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) was born in San Francisco. He was a teacher, writer, and poet and was primarily influenced by daily events. He is a modernist. During World War I, he met Edward Thomas. This was when Frost came up with The Road Not Taken. Frost and Thomas developed a strong friendship. They planned to live side by side while teaching, writing and farming together. Thomas, then, had an important decision to make. He needed to decide between going with Frost or fighting in France. The…

The poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, delineates that the decisions which an individual makes in their life can have substantial effects on their future, despite the fact that they may not realize it. This idea is essentially illustrated as the speaker is initially faced with a dilemma: there is a fork in the road, although he can only embark on one path. The poem is essentially an extended metaphor about how any decision that a person makes during a present moment will determine…

What was the last decision you made? Do you wonder what might have happened if you chose differently? This is the same feeling Robert Frost wrote his famous poem The Road Not Taken about. The poem is about reflecting upon and fretting over a past decision, a decision you may feel you chose poorly or picked the wrong option. This feeling happens so commonly, everyone has experienced it at some point, and on different levels of intensity. It can happen when you think maybe the chocolate ice cream…

Robert Frost is the author and speaker of the poem “The Road Not Taken”. Robert Frost is an American poet who was born in San Francisco. “The Road Not Taken” is one of the most popular poems written by Robert Frost. It consists of four stanzas and each stanza contains five lines. This poem uses much of symbolism. The author which is Robert Frost, must choose between two paths in the wood but is having trouble deciding which one he should take. He also reveals many emotions such as regret,…

In Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken is about choosing the path less traveled by. In many ways, I have too, had to take the path less traveled by. Throughout this essay I will share my insights into my own feelings and experiences that this poem gives me. To begin with, I had to decide where to attend college. All of my friends were telling me how they were so ready to get out of this town and move on with their life. They kept trying to persuade me into being their roommate because we…

Throughout life people have to make many choices, they have to pick one path over another. In his poem “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost uses the symbol of the road to show the importance of breaking away from social norms. He uses the two roads to show the paths that society often pushes at people. One is following where others have gone before, the other is to take your own road, where fewer people have gone. In the beginning of the poem Frost writes “And having perhaps the better claim,…