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  Complete Text of "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; 5 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, 10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 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. 20   Summery of poem   The Road Not Taken is a well- Known poem of Robert Fro...

    Introduction In the modern poetic world of America Emily Dickinson plays a significant and multifarious role which makes her different from contemporary modern poets. She wrote poetry of great power questioning the nature of death and immortality. Emily Dickinson is remembered for her unique poetry. Dickinson wrote from life experience and her deepest thoughts and for herself as a way of letting out her feelings. Emily Dickinson as a poet deals with various themes such as nature, love, pain and sufferings, death and immortality, God and religion, artistic philosophy, universality and so on. Thus the range of themes in her poetry is very wide. Actually she goes through the depth of humane psyche to the profundity of nature.  Theme of Nature Emily Dickinson feels the necessity and profundity of nature. It plays an important role to make her poetic theme glorious and age-worthy. To her nature is extremely harmonious. It is an image of human. She con...

The Waste Land is a 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1992. It has been called one of the most important long poems of the 20th century. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures – the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruelest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the Sanskrit “Shantih shantih shantih”  The five parts of The Waste Land are entitled: 1. The Burial of the Dead, 2. A Game of Chess, 3. The Fire Sermon, 4. Death by Water, 5. What the Thunder Said. The first four sections of the poem correspond to the Greek classical elements of Earth (burial), Air (voices – the draft title for this section was ...