Comment: "The Road Not Taken"

Comment should be original and relate to you or your family.

Tell me how this poem can apply to your life or your family. Be specific and respond personally. Relate back to poem: poem images, poem meaning, poetic devices and such to make your point.


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.

EXCR: Publishing your Poem

You wrote a poem last week. You may use that poem or publish a new poem with a topic of your choosing.

Step One: Post Poem that you wrote this month.

Step Two: Tell me what your poem means.

Mrs. Stansbury

African-American Poem

You must comment on at least one poem. Your comment should be insightful, original, and develop conversation. If you aren't sure if your comment matches this criteria make another. A trite comment that can be made by anyone and is unoriginal is not worth credit. I challenge you to write something worth reading unlike anything you've written before. Also please include the poem or a link to the poem in your post- and poem title and poet name.

Websites: poets.org & poetryfoundation.org Textbooks: I will bring in my poetry books & various books in my room are availabe.

Directions: Find an African-American poem you like/love and would be willing to read out loud. Tell me why you like the poem and why you would read it.

Mrs. Stansbury

Jazz Fantasia & The Weary Blues

Jazz Fantasia by, Carl Sandburg & The Weary Blues by, Langston Hughes

You must comment on at least one poem that was assigned last week. Your comment should be insightful, original, and develop conversation. If you aren't sure if your comment matches this criteria make another. A trite comment that can be made by anyone and is unoriginal is not worth credit. I challenge you to write something worth reading unlike anything you've written before.

Success is Counted Sweetest

Success is Counted Sweetest by, Emily Dickinson

You must comment on at least one poem that was assigned last week. Your comment should be insightful, original, and develop conversation. If you aren't sure if your comment matches this criteria make another. A trite comment that can be made by anyone and is unoriginal is not worth credit. I challenge you to write something worth reading unlike anything you've written before.

The Bridegroom

The Bridegroom by, Alexander Pushkin

You must comment on at least one poem that was assigned last week. Your comment should be insightful, original, and develop conversation. If you aren't sure if your comment matches this criteria make another. A trite comment that can be made by anyone and is unoriginal is not worth credit. I challenge you to write something worth reading unlike anything you've written before.

Do Not Go Gentle

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by, Dylan Thomas

You must comment on at least one poem that was assigned last week. Your comment should be insightful, original, and develop conversation. If you aren't sure if your comment matches this criteria make another. A trite comment that can be made by anyone and is unoriginal is not worth credit. I challenge you to write something worth reading unlike anything you've written before.