Đề số 5: The Road Not Taken.

In The Road Not Taken' written by Robert Frost, there are the lines "Yet
knowing how way leads on to way / I doubted if I should ever come back."
Explain these lines in your own words. Do you agree or disagree with it?
Why?

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He was an
American poet and won the Pulitzer Prize four times. The poem "The Road Not
Taken" was written in England in 1915. The main theme of this poem is
the dilemma. people face when choosing between two or more things. The poet
explained the same thing in the poem when travaller had to choose between two
paths ahead. Choices made in The Road Not Taken always has a life-changing
impact on people.
In The Road Not Taken, written by Robert Frost, there are a lines: "Yet knowing
how way leads on to way / I doubted if I should ever come back." I agree with that
statement. In The Road Not Taken, the poet makes a great metaphor about life and
his choices. In this poem, he describes walking through the woods when he comes
across a crossroads where he must decide which way to go. He chose a road less
traveled, and was a little sad because he didn't know what the other roads had to
offer. In the above line, the poet indicates that once chosen, he could not go back in
time and choose other options, even if he was interested in what the other options
offered. He admits that, in the real world, each path certainly leads to a next path,
and the only way one can go is forward. After briefly imagining a world in which
making a choice doesn't come with the opportunity cost of missing out on what
wasn't chosen, the speaker now abandons that dream in the face of reality. Thus,
the speaker continues to struggle with the feeling of regret that he or she is unable
to travel by both roads. This is all in keeping with the extended metaphor at the
heart of the poem, in the sense that the forking roads represent life's choices, and
one cannot go back in time to re-make decisions.
All my life I have wanted to go back in time to change my choices. First, I would
like to go back to my childhood and remember happy and fair times. After many
competitions in society, I realized that childhood is the most beautiful time and
place. And only childhood gives me peace. Another reason is that I want to fix past
mistakes. It's a well-known fact that most of us did bad things in our childhood and
this opportunity will help us fix them. there is no. I have seen beautiful and
expensive dresses. I like it and wish I had one, but my mom didn't have the money
to buy one. While I cried aloud, she apologized and said,"I hate my mother. It is
not hard to imagine that my sudden words made her very sad and she felt that she
could not give me everything. When you can, correct your biggest childhood
mistake and say: "I love my mom".
In conclusion, going back time is an unreal dream but we have rights to imagine
and wish. If I can stop the time and fly through time, I would go back my
childhood to have peaceful time, to fix some faults those make my love ones sad.
Đề số 2: Have you ever experienced a generation gap? What do you think is
the best way to solve it? Refer to the generation gap in the short story – Flight
and provide examples of your own.
Flight was published in 1957 by Doris Lesing, in a collection of short stories
named The Habit of Loving. The main theme in this story is freedom. To develop
this theme the author uses irony by hiding something to the grandfather in the
begining of the story, he does not know Alice is going to get married. The author
also uses mood, we can see that in the end the freedom of the birds make Alice cry.
She also uses symbolism. In the text, the flight of the pigeons symbolizes freedom.
The generation gap, which refers to a broad difference between one generation and
another, especially between young people and their parents, usually leads to
numerous conflicts. Throughout the Flight by Doris Lesing, we can see that the old
man always wants to hold his granddaughter, have control on her, and never let her
leave; it shows that he is very possessive and selfish. He said: “Think you’re old
enough to go courting, hey?” or “Think you want to leave home, hey? Think you
can go running around the fields at night?” He appears to want to hurt the people
he loves. He uses many rude words to call Alice – “rubbish”; “impudent”. We can
say that he is spiteful. “Rubbish”, he shouted. “Rubbish. Impudent little bit of
rubbish!” All off these, because he fears that he will have to live without his
granddaughter. The old man just has one granddaughter and she will get married,
and he will take her away, so he wants to prevent them. He loves his granddaughter
very much but he doesn’t know how to show his feeling? He doesn’t express his
feeling by words, he just uses actions – but in a very unfriendly way. He wants
everybody to take care of him and to understands his thoughts, but he cannot
speak. The old man has to decide whether to keep his granddaughter or let her go –
He stumped his feet alternately, thump, thump, on the hollow wooden floor and
shouted: “She’ll marry him. I’m telling you, she’ll be marrying him next!”. For
Alice, the old man’s granddaughter is a carefree, young girl – She is in love, but
her love somehow makes her become selfish. From the gate the girl shouted: “Go
and tell! Go on, what are you waiting for? She finds her grandpa old-fashioned.
She is rude towards him, ignoring his reprimands and the threats that he will tell
her mother she is waiting for her boyfriend. “Tell away!” she said, laughing, and
went back to the gate. However, she is also loving and considerate. This is shown
when she gives her grandpa a bird.
We live in an age when many of us have a generation gap with older people. To
find extreme viewpoints, I need look no further than my own family. My family
has members whose opinions vary widely. Two contrasting members of my family
are my brother and my father. I understand both of them fairly well, but
theirattempts to understand each other have not been verysuccessful. Since
childhood, my brother loved to take pictures and had a desire to become a
professional photographer. On the other hand, my father was a businessman, not
gifted with art. This difference started to appear when my brother decided to
choose photography as his future profession. However, my father disagreed with
my brother's decision. My father thinks photography is not a stable profession for
my brother's future. My family had a tense family meeting between my father and
brother, both of whom imposed their views on the other. To resolve that conflict,
my mother and I had to spend a lot of time communicating with my father and
brother every day, finding common ground between both of them, so that they
could sit back and listen and understand what the other side is thinking.
Inconclusion, the generation gap is a very critical concept that occurs because of
the different natures of every person. There should be efforts made by both sides to
get a better relationship between two people. The generation gap may cause
conflict between families but if you try to understand the thinking of another
person and choose a path in between then you can get a happy living family.
Đề số 3: Do you agree or disagree with the advice of the wise man in the first
stanza of the poem "When I was one-and-twenty' written by A. E. Housman?
Why/Why not? Explain yours answers with the details from the poem. Relate
to your own experience.
Alfred Edward Housman was born on March 26, 1859 in England, he is the eldest
of seven children. The poem “When I was one – and – twenty” was published in
his extremely popular first collection A Shropshire Lad in 1896. It is a short poem
made up of two stanzas, in which the young speaker talks about the experience of
falling in – and out – of love.
I disagree with the advice of the wise man in the first stanza of the poem “When I
was one-and-twenty”. The wise man’s advice to the youth was that he should give
away all of his money. Even better, the old man adds, the young man should give
away his pearls and rubies. For those who think that money is more important than
love, they believe so because they believe that money is the glue that keeps the
couple together. Without money, they cannot buy the house to move in together.
Without money, they cannot watch movies in theatres and go for a date night.
Without money, they cannot plan for having babies and building a happy family. In
my opinion, the wise man's thinking is not reasonable; It is really hard for us to
give our money, material things, or anything of value to others when we don't have
any feelings of love for that person. When we love each other, we should give our
hearts to love with all our hearts, give everything we can, if we talking about the
need, it's just that we should suppress a part of our true emotions so that the other
person does not feel overwhelmed in the relationship; The material possessions in
a relationship only serve as a seasoning for love to run smoothly, safely, and
basically make the person in that relationship feel confident. more, so it is
impossible to say that money can completely replace love.

From my point of view,