Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep

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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.

I 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

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August Rush (2007)

Genre: Drama, Romantic
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Stars: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers


August Rush, a film that tells of the journey of a boy to find his biological parents. Evan Taylor(Freddie Highmore), has been living in an orphanage for eleven years. He has exceptional talent in music. Every voice he heard always sounded as beautiful music. His love for the music as great as the sense of disbelief that he would find his parents one day even without the clues left behind since his birth. He just thinks that "maybe his parents are lost" when looking for it.

Who is Evan Taylor's parents? His mother was a young cellist, beautiful and talented named Lyla Novacek (Kery Russell), while his father is Louis Connelly(Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a talented guitarist and band singer. The both met by accident one night in Washington Square, New York. That night changed their lives.

As a result of an accidental meeting, the pregnant Lyla. When the approaching birth of her pregnancy, Lyla has an accident. The opportunity was used by the father to separate Lyla with her baby to the success of her career. Lyla's father told that her son had died at birth despite the fact that the baby was taken to an orphanage. Lyla just found out that her son was still alive after eleven years. When her father was sick and dying, he told the truth on Lyla.

Evan is so strong desire to meet with her parents, forcing Evan to escape from the orphanage. The decision to escape from the orphanage and musical instincts took Evan to the adventure that completely coincidental. Starting from a meeting with Arthur, a street singer in a city park. Evan is very interested in his guitar playing and want to learn it but Arthur continued to refuse to teach. Finally, with one box of pizza, Arthur took Evan to meet Wizard (Robin Williams). Wizard also a musician who holds children's street singers like Arthur. Wizard knows Evan’s talent and intends to make him a famous musician and changed its name to August Rush.

Evan adventure continues as the headquarters of the Wizard visited by police raids. Evan managed to escape and hide in a church where there is a group of people were practicing choir. In place of Evan and even then managed to show his talent as a musician. Evan was taken to a music school. His musical talent seemed to get fertilizer. In a short time, Evan made a concert in a city park with thousands audiences by the teacher.

After knowing that her son is alive, Lyla immediately find traces of his son, including the orphanage where her father went to entrust her children. Unfortunately, at that Evan had escaped from the orphanage. Lyla who has long left the expertise to play music and changed their profession only as a music teacher decided to return to the stage in order to meet his son. The same way was done by Louis who had already left the world of music, back musically to be met Lyla.

Up here we would have to guess how the ending of small families separated for twelve years. I recommend this movie to be your family’s movie. This movie teaches us that we can achieve what we want as long as we believe that we can and never give up trying to realize.

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