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Introduction to Literature A Similar Journey February 2011 There are many people who travel a distance in life to find the path they should take or to remember the path they once took. In the poem â€Å"The Path Not Taken,† by Robert Frost and the short story I Used to Live Here Once by Jean Rhys there are many similarities and differences. The authors’ use of describing a path helps them personify life’s journeys and self-reflection. Robert Frost uses imagery to describe two different journeys in life that could have been taken. â€Å"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.† As Frost writes in this†¦show more content†¦When Rhys says, â€Å"She came to the worn stone steps that led up to the house and her heart began to beat. The screw pine was gone, so was the mock summer house called the ajoupa, but the clove tree was still there and at the top of the steps the rough lawn stretched away, just as she remembered it. She stopped and looked towards the house that had been added to and painted white. It was strange to see a car standing in front of it.† She was not sure why someone would be there. This leads too many thoughts through the girl’s mind, why is everything so different, have I been gone for that long, what has happened here? A question s he had not answers for at that moment. In the last paragraph Frost says â€Å"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.† When he uses repeated images he is describing a re-telling of his life’s journey. He explains ages and ages which shows years that have passes he will talk about the two roads in the woods, which were the two paths that he could have taken. He chose to take the one less traveled by, which could have been a harder path but the one he thought was best for him. His last line is more of a philosophical than an actual description. He says â€Å"I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.† MeaningShow MoreRelatedComparing The Lesson and The Road Not Taken1190 Words   |  5 Pageson the surroundings of the individuals. One of the main aims of the paper is to compare and contrast two characters from selected short stories. The firs t character is Sylvia from The Lesson written by Toni Cade Bambara and the Narrator from the poem written by Robert Frost The Road Not Taken. The reason to compare Sylvia and The Narrator is to compare the choices made by an individual. The Lesson is a short story about a family of African American children. 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