The Road Not Taken

The road not taken by Robert Frost is special to me. This is the first time I really felt a connection with poetry. I was introduced to this poem in high school and I loved how effortlessly Robert Frost wrote. The road not taken makes you think deep into your past and future and the decisions you make every day. Sometimes in life you want to be able to do everything but unfortunately just as the person described in this poem it’s impossible to go down two complete paths at once. You have to choose and let go of other options, you may never know what was to come of them but you make the best out of the chosen. The setting of this poem also draws me into it, I love that it’s made out to be fall and there's leaves on the ground. Fall is my favorite season and I can picture myself in this poem  

Robert Frost reads The Road Not Taken

The Silken Tent

The Silken Tent

She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when the sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To everything on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware. 

Robert Frost incorporated symbolic meaning throughout his poem “The Silken Tent”. The title alone shows the deception of the poem by creating this image of a luxurious loose tent. The tent is symbolic and intern is a woman who like a tent is a foundation and structure but for her loved ones. This woman holds her own tent up, keeps it erect physically and spiritually. Frost expresses more about the symbolism's as he wrote “And its supporting central cedar pole/That is its pinnacle to heavenward” (5-7). The cedar pole he’s describing is symbolic for inner strength and durability. There are many types of words, Frost chose this particular type to stress how supportive, emotionally and physically the woman is for her family. The cedar pole being central emphasized her role as the center and everything she loved was revolving around her, she kept it bonded together. When frost mentions the cedar pole toward heaven it is symbolizing her soul. This woman is compared to heaven, she’s respected, loving and protective. If the woman described in the poem was not the foundation “tent”, as strong as “cedar pole” or pointed towards heaven her soul would leave earth and that structure she built would fall apart.