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I woke up this morning and figured I'd call you

In case I'm not here tomorrow

I'm hoping that I can borrow a peace of mind

I'm behind on what's really important

My mind is really distorted

I find nothing but trouble in my life

I'm fortunate you believe in a dream

This orphanage we call a ghetto is quite a routine

And last night was just another distraction

Or a reaction of what we consider madness

I know exactly what happened

You ran outside when you heard my brother cry for help

Held him like a newborn baby and made him feel

Like everything was alright

And a fight he tried to put up, but the type

Of bullet that stuck had went against his will

As blood spilled on your hands

My plans rather vindictive

Everybody's a victim in my eyes

When I ride it's a murderous rhythm

And outside became pitch black

A demon glued to my back whispering, "Get em"

I got em, and I ain't give a _____

That same mentality that told my brother not to duck

In actuality it's a trip how we trip off of colors

I wonder if I'll ever discover

A passion like you and recover

The life that I knew as a young'n

In pajamas and Dun-ta-duns

When thunder comes it rains cats and dogs

Dumb n***** like me never prosper

Prognosis of a problem child

I'm proud and well devoted

This piru shit been in me forever

So forever I'ma push it, wherever whenever

And I love you cause you love my brother like you did

Just promise me you'll tell this story when you make it big

And if I die before your album drop I hope –

Kendrick Lamar "Sing About Me"

Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”

vs.

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.

Kendrick Decodes his Verse

ABOUT Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

From Wikipedia: The title is often mistakenly given as "The Road Less Traveled", from the penultimate line: "I took the one less traveled by”. "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of iambic tetrameter (though it is hypermetric by one beat – there are nine syllables per line instead of the strict eight required for tetrameter) and is one of Frost's most popular works.

Discussion Questions pt. 1

Discussion Questions pt. 2

1. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” Why is Frost sorry that he could not travel both roads? Is it possible to travel both?Why or Why not?

2. “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.”Idiom: “Hindsight is 20/20”. How does this idiom apply to the passage above?Why do you think Frost says his decision “has made all the difference”?

3) ”I'm hoping that I can borrow a peace of mind, I'm behind on what's really important

My mind is really distorted

I find nothing but trouble in my life

I'm fortunate you believe in a dream”

What do you think the character of this verse means when he says “I’m fortunate you believe in a dream?

4) What is the voice or mood of the character in Kendrick Lamar’s verse? Would you describe it as remorseful, proud, or full of regret? Choose one and briefly explain why?

5) What do you think of the way the verse concluded? What effect do you think the artist was attempting to convey?

Text-to-Self/Common Core Connections

6) Have you ever had to make a tough decision? What crossroads have you come to in your life?

7) Common Core Connection: Students analyze how the opening stanza of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” structures the rhythm and meter for the poem and how the themes introduced by the speaker develop over the course of the text. [RL.6.5]

Kendrick FROST

An examination of complex text thru the

words of Kendrick Lamar and Robert Frost

by Gabriel "Asheru" Benn

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