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aCTIvITy 1.3
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Choices and Consequences: paired poetry
poetry
hence: from now
GraMMar UsaGe R Punctuation
Writers use punctuation in poetry to cluster ideas and communicate meaning for the reader. As you read the poem, look for specific examples of punctuation. Think about how and why the poet used the punctuation in the poem.
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
by Robert Frost
My Notes
10 SpringBoard® English Language Arts Grade 7
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