This

poem is only like a starter for you. What comes next is the main dish to be
bitten, swallowed, and reflected upon in class!

The Road Not Taken

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;
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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,
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And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.
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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.


Robert Frost (1874-1963) American noted Poet

1. What is your definition for art? What is your favorite type of art? Are you
an artist? What kind of art are you adept at?
2. Do you ever frequent art galleries? If yes, what prompts you to do so?
3. Do you reckon that the present day breakthroughs in technology would
jeopardize the value of art through replicas?
4. Do you think it is plausible/feasible/tenable to spend a huge amount of
money on a piece of art? Why should people purchase art? Do you reckon
that art should be at the service of art (art for arts sake: lart pour lart?) or
you think art should be related to society and peoples afflictions?
5. Art should be for entertainment or intellectual growth? Are people
mesmerized by shallow cinema more than meaningful cinema? Why do you
think European cinema can captivate and enchant its own audience?
6. Do you think certain forms of art can be indoctrinated? Or do you believe
that art is innate and not something to be inculcated or instructed? Does it
belong to the nurture or nature?
7. Do you have any favorites in music, cinema, painting ?
8. What genres in cinema and music are you more fond of?
9. What does blockbuster and fluff mean in cinema? Can you name any?
10.Why do you think Iranian new generations are infatuated with the Western
cinema?
11.And your own questions?!