How does Frost use simple moments in time to make deeper and more powerful comments about life?
Write two body paragraphs on ONE Frost poem.
Archie - Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
JP - On A Tree Fallen Across The Road
Ben P - Mending Wall
Road not taken:
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The poem “road not taken” by Robert Frost related to the different choice of life and how these choices could lead to opportunity in life. However, unable to pick the right choice many lead to failing in life. Some moment in the poem of this poem represent deep meaning and powerful reflects on life. The first theme that this poem represents is the theme of life choice. As “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both” symbolize the two different decision that is available but only one choice could be pick. Natural imagery is use to describe the wood as “yellow”, presenting that the season is in spring. However, He choice to take the way “Because it was grassy and wanted wear,” symbolizing humans adaptation of following what other people picked. Thinking that it is always the right choice. This is also seen through “perhaps a better claim”. However as he fought his way through the first path, “knowing that ways leads to ways, he doubt if he ever should come back “. This represent that the decision he made in that moment is the fight thing is do. Imagery scene comes into the audience mind as what is happening now if he didn’t pick this path. Finally, in the end, “he took the path less travel by”, showing the he wants to try something new, to live a life by his own standard rather than following the peer pressure of other traveler. As the line from first stanza repeats of “Two roads diverged in a yellow”, Frost is trying to communicate with the audience and remind them of that there is more than 1 choice in life, where one could lead to success and benefit. However, unable to adapt to the situation and following what other people think may end up differently.
But what does this path leads to? “I shall be telling my story with a sign”, a ‘sign’ represent and symbolize despair and giving up but however can also symbolize of relief. Frost has left it unclear because he may not know our situation about the path we may take. Therefore, in that moment, following other may be a good thing and picking different path may be even worst. But in the end, he know that in this scenario, the man has picked the right path since “that has made all the different” present us in a tone of ‘relief’. Finally, this poem is representing the problem that we face and to find reasons for random choices which have huge repercussions. We try not to admit that our life was controlled by random decision.
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DeleteIn the poem ‘mending wall’ by Robert frost he uses the simple moment in life of fixing a wall at the start of every spring do reflect and comment on a deeper and more powerful issue of the segregation of people because that’s the way it has always been and changing from this is futile. Frost uses seasonal imagery of spring as it is the time of new growth and represents happiness and new beginnings contradicts this by rebuilding the wall at the start of spring putting a barrier, segregating him from his neighbor, we know that this is set at spring as he says “But at spring mending-time we find them there.” Frost compares the persona and the neighbor so we can compare the types of people that he is trying to describe. The neighbor says ‘good fences make good neighbors’ portraying him as a secretive and lonesome person compared to the persona who is more simple as he cannot comprehend the idea of needing a good fence when ‘ there are no cows ‘. We see that the neighbor is not friendly to frost from this repetitive idea of building a wall between them when there is no need to but also the simple fact of the persona referring to him as is “neighbor know beyond the hill”, this is mostly likely because of their different views on segregation as the persona is clearly against it but the repetition of the quote ‘good fences make good neighbors’ and at the end when frost says ‘he will not go behind his fathers saying’ shows that this idea of segregation is all that the neighbor has been brought up to know and what he has been taught is right and to try change his idea would be futile. frost also uses this as a metaphor for change implying that change can only occur if you are willing and you must be open to new ideas, unlike his neighbor who is stuck in the ideals and thinking of what his dad had in a different age and time when segregation may have been acceptable and the neighbor is not willing for change that is why at the beginning of spring he sets the boundaries again.
ReplyDeleteFrosts use of the simple act of ‘mending’ a wall, actually gives a deeper meaning within the poem and comments about life. The simple act of mending a wal brings two gentle the persona, his neighbor and me together. Though The differences between the persona and the neighbour are very core to human nature and these two men do not see eye to eye of this issue of the wall which is a deeper meaning, the issue of segregation and bu using this simple moment in time between these two people frost is able to state his on segregation, the persona and the neighbour are merely just neighbours nothing more nothing less, they acquaintance purely for one reason to rebuild “mend” the wall that has been broken by the thawed winter snow caused by the spring sun. “To each boulder to have fallen to each” the repetition of the word ‘each’ is isolating the persona and the neighbour this line reemphasis’s the point of the purely lucid relationship between them and the isolation between them and how their views are on completely different sides of the spectrum, they do not help each other they only worry about what’s on there side of the wall and marching down the wall as the wall splits them and there properties which in itself is another metaphor for how they both have different opinions on segregation, the persona on his side who sees the futility in it and the neighbor who has been brought up to keep his values one of which is segregation. Though this wall is a metaphor for an opinion that is at the core of every human and that is segregation. this wall is also segregating both properties and the persona wishes to have this wall torn down, “he is all pine and i am apple orchard” the juxtaposition used in this quote is a contrast between the apple orchard and his pine trees, the persona believes this wall as futile, there is no point in having a wall that is not needed nor has any use, this wall is put up only on the neighbors accord, along with this notion of segregation which just like the wall has use and is not needed as all, yet the neighbor will not go behind his father’s saying. The persona feels as if the wall and neighbours are os something from the past like an old-stone savage armed the simile used by frost here states how the persona feels as if the neighbour is some sort of Neanderthal comparing him to a savage a primitive creature all because he is following in the footsteps of his father and building a inept wall, once again relating back so segregation and how the people the push for it are primitive human beings stuck In the past in the times of the parents and they are just following what they were taught which is out of context for the modern era
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ReplyDeleteIn Frost’s poem Out, Out it explores how life can be unpredictable and you don’t know when it is going to end. Frost refers the title Out, Out relates back to Macbeth when Shakespeare uses “out, out brief candle”. The quote shows that life is like a candle and the light of the candle can be blown out at any time such as a human’s life. It also shows that when things go wrong you can devote part of your time to what just happened but you don’t interfere or affect your life and you have to go on with your everyday work. In the first stanza Frost relates it to nature “Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.” The quotes uses sibilance sweeting he smells of death of trees. It also uses descriptive language, which gives us the idea that the nature is breathing. Frost also shows in the first stanza that the ‘buzz’ saw is rattling and snarling. “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard” Frost uses onomatapia, which shows that the saw is buzzing. Frost uses no rhyme structure in the poems Out, out. It represents the unpredictability of life and how you don’t know when it is going to end. With the boy dying at the end of the poem its show that the workers have to go back to work and get on with their lives as if nothing happened.
Frost shows emotion in the poem Out, out to be ambiguous as there is no structure in the poem its was difficulty to understand. We see emotion in the poem when the boy doesn’t want the doctor to cut his hand off. “"Don't let him cut my hand off - The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!" We see in this quote that the boy is showing emotion with the quotes using exclamatory language showing how badly the boy doesn’t want his hand to be cut off. I have picked up on Frost’s message in the poems with how life is unpredictable and you don’t know what it is going through at you. The poem uses imagery and this is used when Frost mention that the saw leaped out at the boy. “As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy's hand”. The quote uses imagery saying the saw leaped out at his hand meaning it actually broke off and cut his hand off. It also uses a hyperbole because it is exaggerating the accident with the saw leaping out at the boy.
Robert Frost’s “On A Tree Fallen Across The Road” explores the aspects of life through simple-metaphorical moments within the poem and expresses deep and meaningful resemblance to our everyday lives. In the first stanza Frost describes the tree falling as ‘the tree the tempest with a cash of wood,’ he uses the word ‘tempest’ to express the fierce and dominating figure that Mother Nature is. At the end of the passage Frost explains that a competition has begun between Mother Nature and mankind, that ‘she’ has stopped us on ‘our journey’s end for good,’ and that we, as humans, must overcome this obstacle – even though she enjoys to “halt us in our runner tracks.” The use of calling nature and the environment ‘Mother Nature’ is clearly seasonal imagery but also is a personification to give nature human emotions such as hatred and the capability to enjoy or like something. The use of words “crash, “bar” and halt”, gives the poem a feeling of abruptness, that although we may not be able to overcome every difficult challenge we face, but that when we come across very defining moments in our lives we must be able to stop and consider who are. This is apparent at the end of the first stanza “But just to ask us who we think we are,” Frost articulates that only when we can answer that question, can we overcome life’s challenges.
ReplyDeleteAs Mother Nature enjoys halting us, she also craves the suffering we must endure when she challenges us; Frost explains this through the use of natural imagery, “and make us get down in a foot of snow, debating what to do without an ax.” The natural imagery used within “a foot of snow,” is to exaggerate the difficult circumstances that mankind come across. The fact that the persona is questioning “what to do without an ax,” expresses that sometimes we will be forced to ‘think on our feet’ and try and find a solution without support. Robert Frost then steps away from his usual ambiguous tone and says something that the reader can take as literal meaning, “we will not be put off the final goal.” He expresses that as humans, nothing will stop us from striving to succeed because unlike nature, we have the mental capacity to endeavor to triumph. Furthermore, Frost enlightens the reader by saying “we have it hidden in us to attain, not though we have to seize earth by the pole,” he specifically uses the word ‘we’ as inclusive language to make the reader comprehend that ‘we’ all can thrive, this also can be taken literally. However, “not though we have to seize earth by the pole,” suggests that although we can accept nature’s challenge and achieve, we don’t have to grab Earth by its poles for the solution is within us and that we will cope with our own knowledge and resilience. The last line of poem Frost says “steer straight off after something into space,” this is a metaphor as if to say, once we do accomplish and defeat Mother Nature’s tests, we can almost do anything, like flying straight into space. In conclusion, the way Frost uses these simple moments in this poem to make dramatic remarks about life is simply by metaphorically describing something is a way, which we, as the readers, can relate to and translate into our everyday lives.
Frost’s Poems are very strong in conveying messages towards life and nature through its impressive language as well as relating it to nature’s beauty. Through seasons Frost explores complex ideas in life, giving the audience a deeper understanding of life and what it means to be alive, displayed in The Road Not Taken. This is seen through the emotive language used to display the persona’s sense of urgency as stresses to the doctor 'don’t let him cut my hand off the doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!' The language creates imagery due to the emotive language that develops emotion in his poems. The themes outlined in “out and out” also present strong representations to life as the poem starts of calm and concludes in drama. The pinnacle relations to simple moments making reference to life would be the Didactic as its deeper meaning is dealt with during our everyday lives. Live is an “Out, out brief candle” Shakespeare’s quote perfectly relates to the message as death can confront you in a blink of an eye. The use of alliteration, “Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.” Draws the reader to search for deeper meaning picking up on little details of the poem as well as adding emotion to the reader, which the reader can relate to.
ReplyDeleteRobert Frost “On A Tree Fallen Across the Road” uses simple moments to to give the poem a more deep and powerful reflections on life. Frost uses seasonal imagery to symbolise the death and a time when the lifecycle slows down “She likes to halt us in our runner tracks”. This quote emphasises with the challenge of moving the tree in winter makes the task a whole lot harder. Frost uses mother nature as the tempest thats sets the challenges before humans, Mother Nature knows that humans no matter what is put in the way of humans that we will over come the challenges that are set for humans “And yet she knows obstruction is in vain: We will not be put off the final goal”. Frost also uses inclusive langue “we” to explain that humans together can get through challenges set forth by Mother Nature. Inclusive langue is rarely uses by Frost, meaning that the reflection of the poem isn't a personal reflection which is the case in most of Frost other poems, but rather what we are humans can to together to overcome natures challenges. Though nature is telling humans that we together can do anything she also try to tell us that some things are not possible “Not though we have to seize earth by the pole” metaphor, that humans cant do everything. Frost comments that natures challenges are not to hinders us but rather to show humans what we are capable of overcoming together when nature challenges us. “Throws down in front of us is not bar” as the persona quotes that natures challenge will be hard as he had the persona has no ax to cut the tree “Debating what to do without an ax” but in the end nature will not hinder the task set in front of us ”We will not be put off the final goal” Frost again uses inclusive langue. Frost uses many techniques to emphasises his comments on what he thinks that humans can do to overcome natures challenges. “On A Tree Fallen Across the Road” also gives humans a different feeling towards nature as to feel that natures challenges are not to hinder us but to show that when we are tested what we are capable achieving.
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Frost’s poem ‘Out, out’, is a direct reference to the play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare. Where the phrase ‘out, out brief candle’, demonstrates life being short and sharp. The main persona in the poem is a young boy ‘doing a man’s work’. He starts of working and cutting wood with his ‘buzz saw’, which is personified as the evil character in the poem. Frost uses repetition in “the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled”, providing a rhythmic beat and highlighting the significance on the malevolent saw. The saw is personified as to have, “Leaped out of the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap”, illustrating the evil character harming the small boy and as the boy exclaims, “Don’t let him cut my hand off –”, it is already too late. Frost uses short sharp dialogue to highlight the personas frantic feelings about his newly missing hand. Immediately we see Frost changing the whole scene and life being turned upside down. “The hand was gone already”.
Getting back to the real meaning of the poem that life is short, Frost writes about how one moment life is fairly steady with a small boy working relentlessly then Frost flips the world upside down and the boy had is cut off. Frost goes on further to describe the reaction of the characters around him. The doctor listens to his beating heart and frost uses short sentence length, with poetic pauses to slowdown the pace on the poem and place emphasis and empathy on the small boy in, “They listened to his heart. / Little – less – nothing!”, which stresses Frosts effect on the pauses between each and every heart beat as life its self fades away. And then as if nothing happened Frost writes as if life continues on giving only a small pause for the boy who had previously died. He uses extremely empathetic language and describes the doctor as a cruel being in, “And they, since they/ Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”, epitomising Frosts outlook on life being brief, “Out, out brief candle”.
How does Frost use simple moments in time to make more deep and powerful comments about life?
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Frost uses simple moments in the poem “The Road Not Taken” to create a deep and powerful comment about life as Frost opens the poem with ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’ to indicate the reader that Frost has used seasonal imagery to represent autumn. The simplicity of Frost in the first line is surprising, as he has told us two things in just one line about having choices to decide in life in which the persona had ‘took the one less traveled by’ and the use of the season autumn. Frost uses an extended metaphor throughout the poem representing different paths we take in life and how ‘way leads onto way’ meaning how the path is extended with just these simple but powerful words. The depth of this poem is more on what goes around in the persona’s mind making it a personal tone by the use of repetition constantly in the first stanza with the word ‘And’ to boldly outline the deep emotions of thinking. The simplicity in which Frost uses in this poem is the use of commas to break up the deep and powerful comments that the persona has in his mind or more like emotional imagery. “Long I stood” is an example of an inverted syntax to emphasise on the uncertainty of the decisions in life the persona should choose incase one decision fails. The use of symbolism is located throughout this poem as Frost relates all this to the modern world we live as our lives are filled with decisions, once again Frost’s simple moments in time creates a deep and powerful observations in life.
The use of simple moments in time has a deeper meaning through the poem “Mending Wall”. It is shown the segregation of life reflects on our common life that everyone lives. The use long sentence in “something there……. Pass abreast” shows the longitivity of this fight for segregation as they “have come after them and made repair”. The use of repletion is also made to emphasise the simple movements in time shown in the” wall between us once again … wall between us as we go”. The effect that this technique has on the audience emphasises the wall that we are being made to ponder about the simple moments in time to make more deep and powerful comments. The poet wishes to put a "notion" in his neighbor’s head, but he doesn’t actually attempt to challenge his neighbor’s love of the wall. The wall takes on greater meaning as the audience watches the lines of communication that shut down between the speaker and his neighbours. Through the communication of the speaker, the author is able to imply moment to emphasise the segration between “he is all pine and I am apple orchard”.
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Through the poem mending walls the author conveys the use of Traditions and customs to make deep and powerful comments of life. This was portrayed through the use of “good fence make food neighbours” as this is an old saying improvising that we need a wall. Although the persona are two different kind of “farmers” but “why do they make good neighbours?.” The use of rhetorical question is implied through the quote as it questions the audience, why should we follow the old tradition of life when we are in the 21 century. Maybe the persona (who wants the wall) feels the need to continue the lifestyle of old tradition. The effect of rhetorical question on the audience makes us reflect on not “what we want but what everyone needs”. This is shown when the author echoes this quote throughout the poem. This Reflects on simple moments in time to make more and deep and powerful comments on how we should live life. Shall we live by ourselves, or shall we share with other people decision and opinions?
Frost makes deep and powerful comments about life using simple moments. Frost uses the crashed tree on the road to symbolize the challenges that mother nature is trying to face us with. This makes the poem an extended metaphor and the tree fallen across the road being the actual life challenge. The persona shows that there is a group of people who have been stopped by this tree. Frost uses inclusive language to give a sense of unison how they need to overcome the challenge of getting around the tree together. Frost uses seasonal imagery to show that a journey has been stopped or hindered as winter is the season which symbolizes death and something coming to an end in a negative way. In the case of Frost’s poem, the tree has stopped the characters in their tracks due to a tree which is symbolic of life. As the characters of the poem come across the tree, the person then goes on to state that mother nature is challenging us as humans and we are “to ask us who we think we are”. The statement of the persona forms the didactic of the which is that in life we will approach barriers which challenge us to help us think about who we are as people.
ReplyDeleteThe message of the poem is then implemented by the persona then personifying mother nature so that he could show that humans are just as equally powerful as mother nature and that mother nature knows that her “obstruction is in vain”, meaning that the ‘tree’ has not affected them in the way that they can not continue. The motivation to go on no matter what is shown by the use of inclusive language “We will not be put off the final goal”. This shows that the persona is including everyone as one.
The moral of the poem is then emphasized when the persona states that
They do not “have to seize earth by the pole”. The persona shows a little bit of humility to show the message that you do not need to be able to create a miracle to be able to overcome something.
How does Frost use simple moments in time to make deeper and more powerful comments about life?
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Robert Frost's Poem, "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening", depicts, literally that an old man stops by the woods and peers into the flaky gloom of the woods on a snowy evening. His horse is confused why he stops by the woods; he longs to be in the woods, but is drawn back by his sense of duty, of obligation.
This poem is about an old man, looking at his life, and the meaning of his life. He looks into the woods, death, and finds it contorting.
"He will not see me stopping here, To watch his woods fill up with snow.", this quote shows the loneliness of the man.
"My little horse must think it queer, to stop without a farmhouse near." The personification of the horse tells the reader how the man is used to habit, following a schedule.
" Between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of the year." The persona's horse represents his friends and family, as he marvels at the beauty of the woods, in the winter Solstice, metaphorical for death.
"The only other sound's the sweep of easy wind and downy flake." This imagery depicts solitary time, whereas the persona feels calmed and relaxed.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." This juxtaposition talk of the persona describing death as something calming and relaxing, something to look forward to.
"But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." The persona has obligations to keep, he has things to achieve, before his inevitable "sleep", his death. The Repetition shows how determined he is to finish his quest before he falls into the embracing arms of death.
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In Robert Frosts poem A Tree Fallen Across The Road he uses many language techniques to explain to power humanity has as a hole. He compares this to the vast power of Mother Nature, which in his opinion is parallel or even not that of mankind’s strength and power to attain.There is evidence of this in the first stanza as it states how a tree was thrown down as a obstacle but still wont stop end the journey for good as they will find a solution, “is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good”. Frost uses inclusive language at the end of the first and beginning of the last stanza to state how the forces of nature trys to steer us off our course as she uder estimates our power.” But just to ask us who we think we are insisting always on our own way so”. Saying how nature thinks we are insolent by staying on own path and not doing what she says as and because of this nature likes to throw down obstacles to stop us “She likes to halt us in our runner tracks”. But because humans are a strong force to recon with she is this in vain and for no purpose as we will always get the final goal human through own knowledge have the power to attain. Yet she knows this obstruction is in vain as we will not be put off the final goal we “have it hidden in us to attain,”. From this he goes on to state how he is proud to be part of the human race, but we should become complacent and arrogant with our achievement, for are got good enough to change the motion of the earth or beam out in to space as this is lucid thinking and that we most be humble, “Not though we have to seize earth by the pole”.Main themes frost in trying to communicate in his poem is that humanity will to attain is very strong, he compares the powder of human population as a hole to that of nature to show to the scale of size, saying the nature is uselessly try to throw humanity of its cause. Frost then states humility is key, as humans are powerful but no match to that of the universe for we can not grab the Earth by the poles. not my best
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How does Frost use simple moments in time to make deeper and more powerful comments about life? – Stopping By The Woods On a Snowy Evening.
ReplyDeleteIn Robert Frosts poem ‘Stopping By the woods on a snowy evening’ he has used a variety of language techniques to explain how the use of simple moments in life can make a deeper and more powerful comments about life.
This poem is talking about many different parts of life, firstly it is talking about how humans should appreciate mother nature a lot more than what its worth, secondly its talking about the responsibilities that have to be done before one can stop and rest, thirdly it is talking about death in life and how we should appreciate life before we die, and finally it is talking about all the different obligations in life that we are faced with.
In the first stanza Frost uses seasonal imagery to create the image in our mind of us sitting and watching the ‘woods fill up with snow’ and it also shows the loneliness of the man. This also reflects back to the meaning of the poem responsibility before enjoyment or rest because as much as the persona would like to stop and admire the woods he has to move on.
In the second stanza Frost uses personification to explain how the horse is thinking like a human and feels that it is odd that the persona has suddenly stopped, My little horse must think it queer, To stop without a farmhouse near. This again relates to how simple, small moments in life can be so good and so beautiful but then again we know it has to end and we have to move on.
In the third stanza Frost again uses personification on the horse to show the impatient feeling that the horse is getting because the persona is sitting there admiring the woods. ‘He gives his harness bells a shake, To ask if there is some mistake’. This also shows how the horse knows that they are on a tight schedule and there is no time to ponder and reflect about life they have to move on and there is time to relax later.
Towards the end of the poem Frost uses repetition of the line ‘And miles to go before I sleep’ to express the shortness of life and eventually it has to come to an end.
How does Frost use simple moments in time to make deeper and more powerful comments about life? “On a Tree Fallen Across the Road”
ReplyDeleteThe poet Robert Frost uses moments in time as a way of creating an analogy for a greater meaning. Within the first stanza of “On a fallen tree across the road”, Frost uses the analogy of a fallen tree blocking a passage of ones journey to accentuate the human spirit’s will and desire to always forge forward regardless of the obstacle.
Within the second stanza, Frost uses personification to in” She likes to halt us in our runner tracks” such that “She” refers to Mother Nature. Frost gives human qualities to a non human to highlight the significance of the human ability to overcome challenges that occur in our lives.
Over time poets have been able to find a raw passion in the beauty of nature that has been shared with the world-giving individual the effect to each person sharing their lifetime of experiences. Robert Frost has a key ability to allow his detailed description on life and nature to change the mind set of his readers this is explored in an underling meaning of his poems with his readers. The poem’s “ Mending wall is a great example of this.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of a controlling raw and unmeasured power is a desire that human kind has always had, the inability to control nature is the closes thing that has come close to it, this is hand in hand with moral sense to plan for circumstances that they can not take control of. In the poem “ Mending wall” Frost has given a message that relates to Human kind desire of control through the simple handy mans work of fixing a damaged wall. The use of Metaphor gives us an example. ”We have to use a spell to make them balance”. This is a strong evidence of mankind’s desire, to stop nature from having the upper hand. This is a deeper in site of the how man finds beauty in nature and finds it hard to see the beauty when they are in fear of something so powerful.
The way our minds think, the way we see the world all depends on the freedom we have in our lives, this freedom gives us choices that affect our life in instant moments or late on in life this choices are always affected by nature, the landscape that is around us.