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Analysis of Two Poems: Choices and Regrets

The document summarizes and analyzes two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "The God Who Loves You". 1. For "The Road Not Taken", it describes the setting as a forest with two diverging paths, one less traveled than the other. The speaker chooses the less traveled path but later regrets the decision. 2. For "The God Who Loves You", the perspectives of the speaker and the addressed person are analyzed. The speaker views the person's life from God's perspective, bringing out God's qualities of allowing free will but feeling regret for choices not fulfilling potential. 3. The document examines themes of life choices and decisions in both poems and how they relate

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Analysis of Two Poems: Choices and Regrets

The document summarizes and analyzes two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "The God Who Loves You". 1. For "The Road Not Taken", it describes the setting as a forest with two diverging paths, one less traveled than the other. The speaker chooses the less traveled path but later regrets the decision. 2. For "The God Who Loves You", the perspectives of the speaker and the addressed person are analyzed. The speaker views the person's life from God's perspective, bringing out God's qualities of allowing free will but feeling regret for choices not fulfilling potential. 3. The document examines themes of life choices and decisions in both poems and how they relate

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A.

Examining and Responding to the text


Answer the following questions for the “The Road not Taken”
1. Where is the poem set?
The poem is set in a forest with two roads diverged in a yellow woods.

2. Describe the two paths that the persona encountered?


The two paths were a like but the first one was traveled by many. The person in the
poem describe the second path grassy.

3. Which path did he/she take? Was he/she happy about his/her choice? How can
you tell?
The path that he/she take was the second path, he/she wasn’t happy with their
decision because he/ she exclaimed at the fourth stanza that in the future, years
passed, he/she would tell this story with a sigh meaning he/she regretted taking and
choosing the second path.

4. What do you think the speaker means in the last line of the poem?
I think the speaker meant in the last line of the poem that somehow he regretted the
decision that he/she made. It shows that he/she thought that if ever that he took the
first path he/she would experience more.

5. Do you like the poem? Why or why not?


I liked the story because it shows that what we experience today, what we currently
have in our life, it always reflects on the decisions and choices that we have, the
poem tells us that it is very important to choose the path that we think is right for us.

B. Answer the following questions for the “The God Who Loves You”

1. Explain the following lines taken from the selection.


…The difference between what is
And what could have been will remain alive for him
Even after you cease existing…

The lines from the selection meant that God has plans for us, he wants what is
best for us, but the person in the poem chose something that God knows that it
isn’t the best thing for her/him. It means that it would taunt God forever knowing
that there is so much more for us even if we are now dead, he would still think
the what ifs of our lives.
2. Who are referred to as the “him and the “you” (the person addressed) throughout
the poem?
Him is referred to God, and you is referred to the person in the poem but if we read
between the lines, you also refer to us readers.

3. From whose perspective does the speaker review the kind of life that the person
addressed now lives?
The speaker reviews the kind of life the person addressed in the perspective of what
God thought of what could have been the life of the person in the poem.

4. What qualities of “the god who allows man’s choice to prevail” is the poem
bringing out here?
It brings that God gave us the freedom to choose whatever we want, it brought the
quality the God allowed man to have a choice to rule his life, which is very
contradicting to some thoughts that was written in the poem.

5. How might all the disturbing thoughts of the god be resolved?


In my opinion, I think that all the disturbing thoughts of God would be resolved by
also thinking that we, humans, have so much better things to have in our life and we
should be determined to the choices that we have and we should be sure that it is
what God and what we think would lead us to the success of life.

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