Comparison between 'The Road Not Taken' and 'The Utterly Perfect Murder'

1. Presented by Khushbu Makwana
Smt.S.B Gardi Department of English MKBU
Presentation topic – Comparison between ‘The R
oad Not Taken’ and ‘The utterly Perfect Murder’
Paper no-108: The American Literature
M.A sem-2
Roll no-13
Enrollment no-4069206420210019
Batch-2021-23
Email id- khushbumakwana1239@gmail.com
Comparison between ‘The Road Not Ta
ken’ and ‘The utterly Perfect Murder’

2. About The Author:
 Robert Lee Frost was born in San
Francisco on March 26,1874.
 He graduated from high school in
1891 and shared the title of valedi
ctorian with Elinor White, whom
he latter married in 1894.
 Robert moved to England in 1912
where he became acquainted wit
h writers such as Rupert Brook, Ro
bert Graves, Ezera Pound.
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)

3. In 1915, he moved back to the United States. By 1920, he was on
e of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.
Robert Frost won four Pulitzer Prize Awards in his lifetime:
•New Hampshire (1923)
•Collected Poems (1930)
•A further Range (1936)
•A Witness Tree(1942)
He served as poet Laureate of the United states from 1958-1959
Robert Lee Frost died on January 29, 1963.

4. • First published in 1916, “The Road Not Taken” shows Frost
at his best as a pastoral who combines rustic simplicity with
hidden, indirect and clarity of style and language.
• Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally a
nd figuratively.
About The Poem
The Road Not Taken

5. The Road Not Taken

6. The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ talks about the ch
oices one has to make in life and their consequenc
es. One day while walking in a wooded area full of t
rees the poet comes to a place where he has to dec
ide which road he should take. He started debating
over the choice as he realizes he cannot walk on bo
th. However he decides to take the second path wi
th the intention of travelling on the first some othe
r time in future.

7. The Utterly Perfect Murder
by
Ray Bradbury
"The Utterly Perfect Murder" is one that's sentimental as i
t goes back in time and has one to come to terms with lett
ing go and facing the future. It involves Douglas now a gro
wn old man who starts to have flashbacks and memories o
f his days as a young boy when he enjoyed piano only to b
e bullied by Ralph and a band of boys. revisit road trip as D
oug packs up old things like toys and decides to travel to hi
s old hometown and area to visit Ralph and he has sinister
plans.

8. “The Road Not Taken” vs. “The utterly Perfect Murder”

13. Resources :
• https://theutterlyperfectmurder.weebly.com/i
nformation-about-the-story.html
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44
272/the-road-not-taken
• https://poets.org/poem/road-not-taken
• https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin
/book/lookupname?key=Frost%2C%20Robert
%2C%201874%2D1963

14. Thank you