In our race to minimize the uncertainties of our pursuits, we risk limiting our potential to elevate and transcend the mediocrity | Instead, he believed it was a serious reflection on the need for decisive action |
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He is the winner of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle and the Editor's Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine | Read the extracts given below and answers the questions that follow: And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden back Oh, I kept the first for another day! The metaphor of the road is one that immediately evokes a journey, not just of the local or day-to-day kind, but of the life-defining sort: life as a journey, with many roads which we must travel along, and with many alternative paths which we must choose between |
The decision that he now makes, will influence him and his life along with his rest of the decisions, since the two roads are same, they still have varied options in them.
21Still, I shall be claiming with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one on the left-hand side, And that has made all the difference | Each of these poems takes a different approach, theme and setting to convey their own message while maintaining similar themes |
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The determinism of a choice, way leading on to way, in a string of events that becomes a life is unescapable | But if you think of the poem not as stating various viewpoints but rather as performing them, setting them beside and against one another, then a very different reading emerges |
One must make decisions and rely upon those choices made to get them to their preferred destination.
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