Remix

Read the two poems below. Identify the common themes/ messages found in the poems. Write your own poem that reflects the common theme/message found in each poem.
=**“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost**=

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 kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 8I 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.

**"Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes**
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor --Bare. But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners ,And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard .Don't you fall now --For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.