Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Dear Robert Frost,

I have been reading part of your work which I found very interesting and extravagant. The poem that most caught my attention was The Road Not Taken, which narrated the story of a person who tries to choose which path to take. I like how you are able to use the language in such an elaborate way, but I think you truly missed the idea of choice-making. In my handbook, the Handbook of Epictetus, you will be able to learn how to live and how decision-making isn’t up to each individual. In the first section you will read that some “things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions – in short, our own doing” (1). You will learn what death and fate really are, as you clearly lack this knowledge.

It is of vital importance that you truly learn the importance of not being the creator or playwright of your story as I clearly share in the handbook. You only are “an actor in a play, which is as the playwright wants it to be” (16). If he wants to make you a soldier, he will make you a soldier, if he wants you to be poor or rich, he will be able to play with your fortune and so on. There is an obligation, as we become influential writers to not use our literature to convince people of wrongful ideas, there is a supreme necessity to let people now what they are really supposed to do and guide them through the process.

When you say, “I-- / I took the one less traveled by” do you really mean that he took the decision to send me by the one less traveled by? These are the problems that proofreading picks up, you truly need to practice that some more. I like what I see overall, even though I don’t understand what the final goal of your writing is. Are you trying to trick human beings into believing they have more power than they really do? You should check if your language is appropriate for a substantial portion of people as my handbook is able to do, and if your words carry line by line, the true message you want them to have. I would appreciate your contacting me at your earliest convenience after reading the accompanying information.

Sincerely,
Epictetus

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