I was drafted right out of high school that year. The lottery came a year later. The police riots in Chicago at the DNC in 68 were 40 miles from where i lived. I knew people that were there. They cared, our country, for the most part did not. They elected nixon and another 30,000 died😮

I find the choice of words important. Why use "ages and ages hence"? That sounds so grand, or you could say it seems like an exaggeration. This adds a distortion to the entire ending that might suggest the distortion of the person's past by his or her own retelling of what happened. Also, the use of "sigh" and the use of "that has made all the difference," without specifying a positive or negative difference, pulls us away from the traditional reading of non-conformity leading to a better life. Finally, the fact the poem is titled "The Road NOT Taken," makes me conclude there is more of regret or at least the nagging quality of not knowing how our lives might have been if we had made different decisions at key turning points in our lives.

Wish I'd known about this poem when my dad was dying.

Thank your video it helps a lot.

Dylan Thomas was Welsh not irish

For the first 7 years of my life I lived in Kemsing. At the top of the road where we lived was the Pilgrims Way. It's a fairly narrow road for cars as it passes along the top of the village. I still like to visit the area and the village. The countryside is great for walking. The quality of the food will depend on where you eat.

One day ill visit great britain. Or any other country… who knows.. maybe it aint ment to be

Do you have the S/M or the XS/S? I ordered the XS/S and I think the shoulder and waist straps are too small for my frame? Im curious if you have the larger size and if you see any issues with fit?

It's about the failure of humanity, evil prevails when good men do nothing. By then it's to late. Do today that you may not be able to do tomorrow. Jmo . The Irish know more than most.

Worst short story ever. Don't know why it's in the literature classes as some classic. I thought this the day I read it in 8th grade. Still do. Pure shock value, nothing else. One can make up all sorts of reasons, pure fantasy.

Thank you so much for this video. It was so helpful ❤

Thank you. Yours is the first video I've seen of anyone wearing a skirt on El camino

Your voice is so nice to listen to ❤

Such fun whip cream and live

Eudora Welty wrote a story with many similarities

Wonderful! Thank you so much for your video. I hope one of my stories will be in your channel one day.

Thousand Cuck Stare !!!

You owe your beauty.. which is a different interpretation mentioned by you.. you owe your beauty to who? The world? You have to give your beauty up to what? Ravages of time? Please clarify. I loved your explanation beyond imagination by the way!

I did not see this story in the list, but it was a very interesting and a gross one. It was a great way to do an assignment.

Professor, this is what I thought it was, but she was more political than I was in my thoughts, but the same ending. It was very good video and thank you. A great way to do the lesson.

What I like about this poem is that Wordsworth is conveying how people from old religion would have imagined natural bodies like seas and the moon to have a form or characteristics of a human being (they tried to treat such with care like another human and befriend them). In this poem, Wordsworth is also conveying to criticise the overall nature of religion it had become in those times where we kind of forgot how beautiful these seas, trees and winds are and how crucial they are for us.

The story l can love.

i love the 30000 part best

Is processing grief insanity? I think to the rest of the characters in the play, he is perceived as crazy but to the audience we empathize with Hamlet. He’s the only one willing to process the grief of his father’s passing while everybody continues with business as usual, completely aloof to the fact that the death of the king was not organic. Rather than questioning it though, everybody goes along because they get to keep their roles. I think hamlet was smiling down on everybody because like you said he realizes the heart of men after watching his dad pass. Very sane. But honesty can almost come off as insanity when the false perception is stronger than the truth

Understanding of systems and organizations and resisting over control and fear… the concepts of tight and loose… effective and caring and the positive informed of optimism and realism. It’s not always easy ya’ll…

Throwing people under be bus, so to speak… it’s not all that… yet… listening and understandings matter a lot. The neural diversity and cultural diversity and various processes and intersectionality. It’s not one thing nor one oath. The eco systems of health, climate (energy/infrastructure/tools… helps. Synod is a partial thought process and dogma and varieties of insertions and executive orders and “back orders”… lots of makers of needs and overlays of “can kicking” and roads rising… on and on. It is real… so to speak or roar? Or cirque… torque… apples and cows… the things and humans are cool and how… we still need to be imperfect and play… while not giving the trust a shive on its way.

Brilliance and genius varieties of definitions. And understandings of better and still caring… imperfection and control and spheres of brackets and on and off courts.

These are advanced concepts relative to varied AI and symbolic logic… it’s not karma… yet the currencies and concepts of contexts and false threats and ocd, and ADHD and layers of kinda autistic tendencies…. Risk and assessments and judging. And protecting and basements of generational behaviors and trauma and reality… God is a spooky sucker indeed… winning and loosing and contexts of letting go and sales goals and helping. Lots of irony and really really lousy beauties barely masked merit. Yet, walls falling and dark spots under eyes… breathe ya’ll… I’m trying too.

Thanks. Every morning I drink a large glass of cold water and read a WS sonnet. I have 4 little books drifting around the house. I randomly pick one I don’t know and read it a couple of times. I love the feeling of of not knowing what the poem is getting at.. I like not knowing and then coming to an understanding. But I really enjoy your word by word way of explaining a poem. I’m a photographer and find poetry is a way to populate my otherwise empty head. Thanks

It is very interesting , perhaps the storm is the tradition and expectation

Thank you for your videos. I’ve enjoyed them and used them in my high school classroom for years. Would you consider starting a book club where members meet periodically on Zoom to discuss the book?

You gave me a much deeper understanding of this great poem.

a Welshman who DIED after drinking 18 whiskeys

Superb, thank you

Everything that's wrong with KZbin. He was Welsh not Irish. Most of his work is a celebration of Welshness.

Very Well explained!!!

Having just viewed this my first video of yours I compliment you on it. Also, I inquire of you “could it be some homage to name the title character Emily who adored gardening/flowers”? Although she was not southern nor was she exactly like the character of his Emily she was very much a reclusive woman.

Awesome! Thank you so much

Sounds like a love affair to me ✨❤️✨💋✨

Perfeita explicação

I love your explanation!

A 16 year-old teen from India here who likes to read sometimes, read this story minutes ago and wanted some perspective on this more precisely an interpretation of sorts. And well this video made 10 ten years ago came to rescue.

Nice job on a great poem. I believe the word she was searching for was forsaken. The poem is about being forsaken by god and a beloved. Frost uses religious symbolism. “I have walked out in rain and back in rain.” The beloved has sent him out into the night and is not calling him back, has not changed her mind, she is resolute, won’t even say goodbye.

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such a great video it was, Thank you

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Pilgrims!!!! No need for Colonizer language.

Too good points to analyse the story

Just read this last night and wanted to get an idea of the cultural significance this story has and why it's so famous. Wanted to say thanks from 10 years in the future 🙏

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