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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 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,
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 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 kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Read this poem, think of a way the words could be rearranged to better form a visual structure that supports the poem’s content. You may either draw a shape, or describe this shape. Write a 3-5 sentence explanation supporting why you chose this shape/form. Use support from the poem.
What is Tone? “The School” by Donald Barthelme “And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.” Robert Frost in the last stanza of his poem “The Roads Not taken” “I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”
What is Irony? Samuel Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.”
What is Symbolism? • “As you Like It” by William Shakespeare • “All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;they have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,” William Blake’s “Ah Sunflower” “Ah Sunflower, weary of time,Who countest the steps of the sun;Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveler’s journey is done;”
Nursery Rhyme Concrete Poems Original: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Concrete Poetry Version: H (umpty) sat D on a wall H (umpty) had a grEAT f D a l l horses Alltheking’s and men Couldn’t pu (tHump)ty tgthr(ooe) aGAIN from Albert B. Somer’s Teaching Poetry in High School (Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999): p. 151. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson211/nurseryconcrete.pdf
Hey Diddle Diddle (1765) Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. Jack and Jill ( 1760s) Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after.
Think about something you've written that you remember well. It might be a letter to someone, an essay for school, an article for the school newspaper, or a poem. Think also about the choices that we've discovered poets make when they write a poem. How did you make choices as you were writing? What conclusions can you draw about writers in general from thinking about the way that you and others (including poets) write?
