Bodie Thoene once said, “What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ” This quote means that most people forget the right way and just way to do things because of the easier and more convenient way. I agree with this quote because | have done it before many times, and have witnessed it many times. As an example, I once did something that was not kind, and when given the opportunity to be honest, I instead lied and covered up my wrong doing.
I could have admitted my fault, but it was a more difficult option than to lie and ignore it afterwards. Thave seen other people do this as well. Once I was with my friend and we were tossing a football around as we walked, and he tripped and bumped into a parked car. He left a small dent, and against my attempts to persuade him, he left the scene and didn’t say sorry to the owner. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost supports the idea of this quote; however, “Untraveled Road” by Thousand Foot Krutch does not.
The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost goes along with the theme of the quote by Bodie Thoene. For example, in the poem Frost says, “I took the other, as just as fair” (Line 6), stating that he took the better road that looked just as beautiful and less taken. In this line, Frost is making a difficult decision, and is taking the path of his choice. This supports what Thoene says because Frost is taking the road that is convenient, not the one that is right.
Frost also says, “Oh, I kept that first for another day!… I doubted if I should ever come back” (Lines 13 through 15). This is showing that Frost doesn’t know whether he should retrace the better, more convenient path, to get the same result, but by going down a different, more difficult path. Frost is saying that he would rather take the more convenient path, and take the easy route, instead of working hard and getting a better feeling result like Thoene said, “What is right if often forgotten by what is convenient.
Once again, Frost’s decision is being clouded by what is the more efficient and convenient way rather than taking the extra step and putting in the effort and the elbow grease or hard work to take the right path. “Untraveled Road” by Thousand Foot Krutch does not go along with the idea by Bodie author says, “We walk where no one wants to go, on this untraveled road. “(Line 15 Stanza Thoene saying, “What is right if often forgotten by what is convenient,”. In the song the 4). The song is talking about how he and “we” are taking the untraveled road because it is the right thing to do, even though it is harder to do.
This means that the author and the “we” he is referring to are walking the path that is not taken often, rather than taking the easy way out and ignoring the more difficult path. It also says in the song, “But we’ll be smilin’ like we expected, with sweet victory one method” (Line 19 Stanza 5). This is the author’s way of saying that he and “we” will be happy and joyous once the rough path is over and the reward is claimed at the end of it all. This is because when you have a nice easy path ahead of you, the end of the path seems average compared to what you have traveled through.
If you take the more difficult path, once you endure the pain or manage to get through the difficult experience, the end of the path will be much better to you, since you didn’t get everything handed to you. Once again, this is the opposite of the message that Thoene is making. Thoene says that “What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ” In the song, the author is making a statement that he is taking the rough, unscathed path, and powering through to make it to the much sweeter reward.
So, to sum up the piece, the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a good comparison to what Bodie Thoene said which is, ‘What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. ” This is another way of saying that people usually forget that doing what is right is more important than what is easy to do. On the contrary, “Untraveled Road” by Thousand Foot Krutch is not a good comparison to Bodie Thoene’s saying because its main idea is that taking the less traveled, and the less convenient path, will provide you with a much greater reward when you reach the end of the path.
