Swerve means to go off path to get around something. Although not all situations are choices, there are times when a person must stop and make a choice to take another path. The author’s choice to use the word ‘swerve’ represents the uncertainty of life and how often people come across situations that were not at first apart of their path, and swerving is the only opinion in order to get where they want to be. The setting is dark and fills the poem with a feeling of danger and suspense; the suspense of a decision between life and death. Traveling through the dark” not only shows the narrator literally traveling at night, but also shows confusion. The narrator is all alone in the dark of the night with no one to help make a choice. Also the quotation “I stood in the warm exhaust turning red” symbolizes the fawn and the dead mother. ‘Red’ indicates death and blood, and ‘warm’ signifies the warmth being exposed from the deer’s stomach because of the life inside of it. It also appeals to the senses of sight and touch because the narrator can see the dead deer but was unable to notice the fawn until he touched the mother’s stomach.
The Essay on The Road Not Taken In The Choices of Life
"The Road Not Taken" in the Choices of Life "I shall be telling this with a sign Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ? And that has made all the difference." (Frost 751) The narrator of this last stanza of "The Road Not Taken" is Edward Thomas, eluding that the choice he has just made may be the wrong, or the right; but only time will tell. On the surface, Robert Frost?s poem is a story about a ...
The author also uses personification in line fourteen, “under the hood purred the steady engine. ” The author gives the inside of the car life like actions, although realistically, the car is not alive. Just as, the deer itself is not alive, yet inside of it a fawn is living, breathing, and being supported off of its dead mother. “Her fawn lay there waiting, alive, still, never to be born. Beside that mountain road I hesitated. ” The narrator felt no guilt in throwing the “heap” over the side of the canyon.
However, upon learning that beside him there lay a fawn waiting on his decision; waiting for her inevitable fate to be revealed, the narrator’s mind is changed. He believes death is a part of life, and it is not be grieved over, but rather to be only respected. But life on the other hand, is to be valued, and although it is remarkable that the fawn is still being supported, there are other lives at stake that deserve to be cherished. The narrator encountered his “only swerving” and “thought hard for us all” and chose to throw the dead deer and her living fawn over the edge for “to swerve might make more dead. ”
