Read these lines from Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken.” And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Which idea is conveyed by this part of the extended metaphor that is created throughout the poem? One path seems to hold more promise than the other. Both decisions seem equally likely to turn out poorly. Neither decision appears to be better than the

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.

According to scholasticism, truth is god's?