Poem+Comparison

These poems are similar because there themes both have to do with leaving a mark on humanity and making the right choices. In the poem 'The Road Not Taken' the theme is about making the right choices in your road of life. Its also about how taking the road less traveled by can be better than taking the common one. And in 'Carving A Name' the theme is that to be remember you have to do good deeds and be different. Also realizing the to have your name remembered, you have to leave your mark on humanity and not carving it in an object. These relate to each other because people always aim to leave a great impact on humanity and will do whatever it takes to get there. Like taking the road less traveled by and doing good and at times bad deeds. Also these two poems have a rhyme scheme, yet it is not the same one. In 'The Road Not Taken' the rhyme scheme is ABAAB while in 'Carving A Name' the rhyme scheme is ABCB. Even though the two rhyme schemes aren't the same, the poems are still similar for having one. For the poetic devises both of these poems have symbolism in the road not taken the poet isn't actually talking about a road, he is talking about the road of life and in carving a name when the poet said he'll carve his name in the hearts of men it was of symbol of letting man kind know who he is. There were many other devises in these poems like metaphors, hyperboles, repetition, and personification. 7. The Road Not Taken  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 marked 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. 2. Carving A Name

I wrote my name upon the sand, And trusted it would stand for aye; But, soon, alas! the refluent sea Had washed my feeble lines away.

I carved my name upon the wood, And, after years, returned again; I missed the shadow of the tree That stretched of old upon the plain.

To solid marble next, my name I gave as a perpetual trust; An earthquake rent it to its base, And now it lies, o'erlaid with dust.

All these have failed. In wiser mood I turn and ask myself, "What then?" If I would have my name endure, I'll write it on the hearts of men,

In characters of living light, Of kindly deeds and actions wrought. And these, beyond the touch of time, Shall live immortal as my thought.