The Road Not Taken, By Robert Frost And Emily Dickinson

Robert Frost published a poem called “The Road Not Taken” this poem was published in 1916, the poem discusses the choice that he had to make between two roads and how he chose one road over the other after considering both roads, and believes that he made the right choice choosing the opposite road. The focus of “The Road Not Taken” poem was to considering a fork in the road. The speaker chooses one road, and says that he will take the other road another time. He also admits that someday in the future he will go back down the other road. The narrator ends his poem wondering how different things would have been if he choose to go down the other path.

In a poem by Emily Dickinson called “I measure every grief I meet” was published in the 1980s,

In Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken” and Emily Dickinson “I measure every Grief I meet” both the speakers are comparing one thing to another. Robert Frost was comparing one road to another road, while Emily Dickinson was comparing her grievances to other people grievances. In Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” the speaker describes two roads and at the end of his poem he ends up making decision to take one of the roads that was less traveled by people. In Emily Dickinson “I measure every Grief I meet” the speaker she talks about how she observes people, and how she always returns to her own sadness and grief. In addition to wondering about other people, she also compares herself to them, asking questions like "I wonder if it weighs like mine -or has an Easier size" and "I wonder if it hurts to live – and if they have to try"(Dickinson

There is a specific examples she uses to describe herself the speaker says “I measure every Grief I meet –with narrow, probing, eyes” (Dickinson 1). The tone of the poem was disturbed, or Despairing because the things that mentioned in her poem where not uplifting or good things they were all negative things, or the downside of situations. The imagery used contributes to the meaning and tone of the poem by understanding the she was looking at the negative side of everything because of the things that she went