By Ralph Haselmann Jr.

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       The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost , is about a man who is walking through the woods one day and comes upon a fork in the path. He stops for a while and finally decides to take the less traveled path.
       The “yellow wood” and the “leaves no one had trodden black” reveals that it is autumn and symbolizes the latter part of a person’s life, when he is old. The divergence in the wood symbolizes a decision that the speaker must make, and he decides to take the less obvious decision.
       The decision that the speaker makes would probably have an outcome on his life. Because the speaker takes the “less traveled road”, this reveals something about his character. Instead of taking the often – traveled road, or the common route, he chose to be different and aspired for something more than taking the easy way out.

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Ralph Haslmann Jr.
American Lit
Mr. Parent
1982

Ralph Haselmann Jr.’s Bio
Ralph Haselmann Jr. was born on October 4, 1965 and lives in the lush rolling green hills of Morristown, NJ. He graduated from Mason Gross School Of The Arts, Rutgers (New Brunswick, New Jersey) in 1990 with a BFA in Graphic Design. He proceeded to paint houses for 11 years after school because it paid much more. He edits the critically lauded Lucid Moon Review Poetry Website, www.lucidmoonpoetry.com, which has been called the best poetry website on the internet, a valuable resource for poets, and is highly rated by Google. His first two poetry books, Wounded Heart, Naked Soul and Scattershot Haze, are available at Xlibris at 1-888-7xlibris, www.Xlibris.com , www.Amazon.com , www.BarnesandNoble.com , and www.Borders.com . In October 2001, Ralph was in a horrible, serious, near-fatal car accident, which left him paralyzed below the waist and in his right writing hand. Ralph is not wallowing in anger or self-pity, rather he is rededicating his life to promoting and publishing the works of others and himself. Remarkably, he can type with an adaptive keyboard and use a mouse pad to work on his website. Ralph is a member of The Writer’s Bridge, a group which will help place his writings in magazine markets that will pay him. Ralph is also a proud member of Peta, not People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals, but the other one, People Eating Tasty Animals! Ralph has given poetry readings at The Shaker Café in Flemington NJ and The Back Fence in NYC. If you would like to reprint his writings or correspond with him, he can be reached at:

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