The Directive for the American Dream

Robert cover is one of the most popular poets in America. He was known as the favorite poet of the countrys citizens (Hollander). In directing, one of his popular works, Frost became controversial as the explanation of the poem actu eachy suggested that in severalize to let out ones self one has to get helpless first. This may be squ are(a) as there is no necessity to chance something which is not lost. However, by claiming this in his poem, it has been said that Frost has presented to his audience the late version of the American intake. The American DreamThe c erstpt, American Dream, began from the writer James Truslow Adams. He used it in his book, Epic of America, which was published in 1931. The c formerlypt indicatered to that stargaze or vision of a land in which life is better, richer, and fuller for all passel. The opportunities in this land are according to each persons ability and accomplishments. It is not merely a aspiration of batch to consume high-end properties and earn high salaries instead it is a vision of a fond order in which all men and women may be adequate to(p) to achieve the fullest stature that their innate capability may bring them.This is heedless of concepts that are relative to fate or destiny, like circumstances of wear or position (What is the American Dream). During the 30s, the century in which this work was published, the American dream actually scared to become vague. Although there were people who believed strongly in the American dream, there were also those who slowly lost faith. America was whence under the great depression and its economy was at a very low status thus, the vision of the American dream searched rather obscure (Sutton). However, as the time passed, the cloudiness of the vision started to can up.America slowly got to its feet over again and the dreamers, who woke up during the great depression, began to dream again. Today the dream is still on-going and the dreamers generate now grown to multitudes. From Americans who believed their founding fathers, the dream has already spread to other countries (Sutton). Foreigners who continued to enter America were said to pee-pee been armed with their American dream. They come into the country, with the desire to earn for themselves and their families and to achieve greater. This is then current generations view of the American dream (Bohan).This may be what Frost was referring to in his poem. It may be remembered that the poem, Directive was well-nigh a speaker telling someone that he can inhere in him around, direct him somewhere. But there is a huge probability that he may only take the person to the wrong destination as indicated by this line, if youll let a guide direct you/ Who only has at heart your getting lost (Frost). This may point that Frost was act to tell his audience that in order for a person to find his true destination, he must first get lost.In the earlier authority of the poem the speaker descr ibed the places that the person he will be accompanying may go through. It is an old town, where everything is dilapidated and destroyed. The roads were once walked on yet no longer visited and patronized. It is a place that people has deserted (Frost). This may be comparable to the fact that when foreign migrants start to envision something great for themselves and decides to transfer to America, he leaves behind the home he once knew. The deserted place may refer to the life the migrants once had. It was tattered, of not the best quality, and very poor.Now the journey that the poem is referring to may be the travel in order to achieve the American dream. This may refer to the part of the migrants life where he enacts the dream and tries to conform to it. In the poem, this is the line that says, Make yourself up a/cheering air of how /Someones road home from work this once was, /Who may be retri entirelyory ahead of you on foot (Frost). It indicates that many deliver done the like things and many have dreamed the same dream and have embarked on the journey. They left their home, their old lives, and even their identities.The way that the migrants left their identities behind is the stamp of lost that was be referred to by Frost in his work. Paralleling this to the American dream, it should be noted that foreign people enter the country to work and the citizens have the tendency to discriminate. These immigrants are not only viewed unequally by the citizens they are also treated unequally by those who employ them. One gross instance is the case of the Mexican laborers who are paid with lower contend but given bigger and more difficult jobs than American laborers.People seem to have this fancy that when the work is done by Mexicans, it can be as good and efficient but not as costly. This notion is directly related to their racial affiliations (La Botz). The fact that when they are seen this way denotes that they have already lost their dignity and the mselves. There seems to be no foretaste if this kind of situation is examined, however, as the poem indicates, And if youre lost enough to find yourself/ By now, pull in your ladder road behind you/ And govern a sign up CLOSED to all but me./ thus make yourself at home (Frost), the drawback is not without a price. After being lost, the person finally finds his destination. Relative to the immigrant workers, the destination is the fulfillment of their American dream. disposed(p) this, it may then be concluded that using various exemplary words such as destinations, lost, and home in the poem Directive, Robert Frost was able to present to the public his idea on modern American Dream. He was able to expose to his readers that the modern American dream involves getting lost and finding ones self again as narrated in his poem.He was also able to pinpoint that this generations American dream is no longer limited to the citizens of the country but also to foreigners who are willing to get lost in order to find themselves finally. Works Cited Bohan, RT. 2008. Immigrants and the American Dream. Liberty in America. 30 April 2009 . Frost, Robert. 2009. Directive. Poets. org. 30 April 2009 http//www. poets. org/viewmedia. php/prmMID/20521 . Hollander, John. 2009. A Close Look at Robert Frost.Poets. org. 30 April 2009 http//www. poets. org/viewmedia. php/prmMID/15894 . La Botz, Dan. 1992. Labor in Mexico. multinationalmonitor. org. 30 April 2009 http//multinationalmonitor. org/hyper/issues/1992/11/mm1192_13. hypertext mark-up language . Sutton, Bettye. 2008. American Cultural History. Lonestar College Kingwood. 30 April 2009 http//kclibrary. lonestar. edu/decade30. html . What is the American Dream. 2002 The program library of Congress. 30 April 2009 http//lcweb2. loc. gov/learn/lessons/97/dream/thedream. html .