"You did not come," the poem begins, "And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb…" Set in grammatical parallel, the inaction of "you" and the action of "Time" conspire to disappoint. In "A Broken Appointment," which finds Hardy’s speaker quarreling with a woman over an unrequited love, it’s Time in particular that allies with the Other. His poems tend to know where they stand, and argue with each other more than with themselves: that is the source of their limitations but also of their pugnacious greatness.
The present paper attempts to look at this concept of 'binary oppositions' in the poems of Robert Frost namely The Road Not Taken and The Armful.Ībstract That is, he rarely brings such markedly clashing attitudes into close conjunction. It also prepares the reader to look through the 'given' constructs in the world, to distinguish between appearance and reality. It also assists in realizing the significance of maintaining vital cultural ideas, and at the same time, rising above cultural stereotypes that may be conflicting to keep pace in the progressing world. It helps in developing potent layers of meaning for a more refined analysis, through a better classification of the thematic features of a text.
Comprehending the process of destabilizing the binary oppositions can make one, a competent reader to understand the basis of literary aspects and combinations in the text. It allows the readers an opportunity to travel beyond the conventional dualisms that direct the thinking. Structuralism is that probe with which, the reader is both delighted and challenged by the nuances of language. One of the strategic options not to lose so lies in the 'structuralist' approach. In this write up, the value of the game considers the lexical choices in the poem " The Road Not Taken‛ by Robert Frost in the following categories: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, lexical categories such as synonymy, antagonymy, contradiction and their significance or effects in the poem.Ī unidirectional thinking might make one lose many other or other experience. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices. A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. It seeks to account for the interpretative effects of a text through close study of its linguistic detail, such as syntactic structuring, semantic deviation, deixis, modality, etc. Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics. The purpose of the paper is to amplify conflicts regarding choices in human life with the assist of his renowned verse ‘The Road Not Taken.’ In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the speaker believes that he will not put up with any grief due to his decision in the future.
Life is not a bed of roses a man has to fall in indecision regarding choice. The poem is about conflict regarding two possible choices in human life. Critics, scholars, and the general people cite his famous poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ as one of the mesmeric poems. The themes of his poetry are very inspirational and innovative. His poetry begins with delight and ends in wisdom. He is regarded “The Voice of America.” He discusses natural, personal elements and the social piece that are related to the human being very aptly and minutely in his poetry. During his life, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times for his outstanding contribution in poetry. Robert Frost is considered as the greatest modern poets in American literature.
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