![]() He wrote that he took the other path because it had “perhaps the better claim/Because it was grassy and wanted wear” but to be truthful he had to go on to admit that “though for the passing there/had worn them really about the same” so he tried to justify his choice but couldn’t quite do it. However, he tried to convince himself (or his audience) that they were different paths in order to justify his choice and to make it seem as though he took the more difficult yet more rewarding one. Look as hard as he might, and “long he stood”, he really could find no difference between the two paths. We like to think that we are being independent, free, and original-three hallmarks of American ideology and what it is to be an American-but in effect it is all an illusion to make ourselves feel better, to make nonconformity, which is Frost’s point in the poem.įor example, as the narrator in the poem comes to a fork in the road and has to choose between two paths and looks carefully at both of them before making his decision, he accedes that both of them are “just as fair” and that those passing through had “worn them really about the same” and that both of them “equally lay”. The same goes for American society, whose pave-your-own-way philosophy rests on the ideology of nonconformity and individualism. However, the underlying theme of the poem, that taking the route to nonconformity is the best choice, it is also an illusion skillfully administered by American society both paths are essentially the same, but Frost makes himself believe that they are different and one is more correct than the other and that it has “made all the difference”. This binary opposition is the key to the text’s main ideological framework, that nonconformity, or taking the path less traveled, is the desired choice in having a better life. In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” the central tension in this text is conformity versus nonconformity. The aim of this paper is to investigate these binary oppositions through these two important poems of Robert Frost. Robert Frost deconstructs this binary opposition of fire and the opposition. Briefly, to the title of “Fire and Ice”, it looks like a binary opposition like black and white, men and women, hell and heaven, demon and angel, and bad and good. If this poem is observed in details, it will show how Roberts Frost deconstructs about the end of world. ![]() Also Frost ‘s another poem “Fire and Ice” that commonly people say it is about the end of world, can be summed up from the first line that written by “Some say the world will end …” Continued by the contents that show how it will end. ![]() Did Frost make a fundamental error in his poem or did he deliberately write the last line in a clever attempt of chicanery to winnow out the scholars from the masses, or is he commenting on the illusion of independence, freedom, and originality in American society? I suspect the latter but that is a thesis for a different essay. High schools have been using this poem to motivate students for decades, but what teachers and students never seem to notice is that both roads are essentially equal therefore there is no moral to the story about the road less traveled making all the difference. Therefore, deconstruction is a way of reading text with the result that text cannot sign a meaning in a hierarchy or single truth (Ratna, 2004:222, Al-Fayyadl, 2005: 68, Norris, 2006:14).A deconstructive reading of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” reveals that the road not taken doesn’t make any difference at all. A sense or a meaning cannot be limited by a sign, because the sign just descends the real meaning. Deconstruction itself is refusing of logo-centrism that centers the hierarchy in a binary opposition of a sense or meaning.
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