Wednesday, September 18, 2019
The Road Not Taken Vs. Mother To Son Essay -- essays research papers
Paths are Like Stairs      Although they portray two very different writing styles, Robert Frost’s â€Å"The Road Not Taken†and Langston Hughes’s â€Å"Mother to Son†have a few things in common, especially their meanings.      In â€Å"The Road not Taken†Frost speaks of a time in his life where he had to make a choice, a choice of which direction his life was about to go: â€Å"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood / And sorry I could not travel both†(1-2). â€Å"Mother to Son†also speaks of life in a metaphorical way, but as a staircase rather than two paths: â€Å"Well, son, I’ll tell you / Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair†(1-2).      Later in â€Å"The Road Not Taken†Frost describes the appearance of each road, one as being less traveled on than the other by people before him who had to make the same decision: â€Å"And looked down one as far as I could / Then took the other, just as fair / Because it was grassy and wanted wear†(4,6,8). â€Å"Mother to Son†takes it another step as to describe the staircase the mother had to climb. She explains how hard it was but also how she never gave up: â€Å"It’s had tacks in it / And splinters / And boards torn up / But all the time / I’se been a-climbin’ on†(3-5,8-9).           â€Å"The Road Not Taken†ends by giving a moral to us about Frost’s life and the path he did take. Although Frost doesn’t thoroughly explain the path he took, the reader ...
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