Jonathan Valencia

March 13, 2016

ENG 1121- D465

Assignment: Outline for textual analysis essay

Opener – “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway” – Earl Nightingale

Thesis – Not making up your mind up your mind can be very stressful as it take up time, excuses, and ruin your dreams and hopes.

Subtopic Paragraph 1 – Time

• How is time running out for the traveler/ speaker of the poem
• Can make up his mind on with road or path to take.
• Wondering if there will be another time

Subtopic Paragraph 2 – Excuses

• Giving excuses on how the road the chose to travel was shorter
• Traveler or speaker saying there will be another time he will take the road he didn’t choose.
• Knows that there will be no next time so he is just saying it.

Subtopic Paragraph 3- Dreams and Hopes

• Speaker/ Traveler wants to travel the path he choose not to travel once he has time
• Hoping for another chance he wont ever get again

Conclusion- Restate thesis brief summary of poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost