https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51171/death-5964e24388316
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Professor: Jessica Penner
Email: creative.writing.citytech2@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. I’ll be available through Zoom and will send an invitation via email that you should keep all semester. Try to join my meeting at the start of the hour, not at the end—since I may be talking to other students or have another appointment after the hour is up. If those times don’t work with your schedule, we can schedule a different time. This means you’ll have to schedule an appointment in advance. I suggest you have multiple times in mind, since your schedule may not mesh with mine!
“Death” was a new read for me, but The Road Not Taken is a poem that has always stuck with me, if only for its last two lines “I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”. Something about those two lines just makes the poem as a whole iconic.
I enjoyed each poem because they both have a deeper meaning. What’s being said is not supposed to be taken at face value, we as the reader are supposed to think about the double meaning of the words and the underlying message as a whole.