Frost, The Road Not Taken
The poem "The Road Not Taken" is popular for a good reason. It has many different meanings, all of which are fair interpretations. My interpretation is that throughout life, we are faced with many difficult decisions. We should strive to be unique when making these decisions. The reason I chose this poem is because this idea relates to me quite well. I try to live in the manner Frost describes. Taking the common path is not the best way to live and I think that Robert Frost is trying to tell us this in "The Road Not Taken."Frost's writing has many interesting characteristics. These characteristics give his writing a unique style. One of the characteristics is ambiguity. Writing with ambiguity means that he writes in such a way that he leaves the poetry open to various interpretations. This is certainly true here. Besides my interpretations there are many others. One could interpret the poem to saying that it doesn't really matter which road you take in life, you will get there eventually. Or it could be interpreted as saying that life is an open book and one can choose to be anything you want. The decisions that we make will shape our future dec
Frost also uses colloquial language in this poem. Writing in colloquial language is writing how the people of the author's time would speak. Two examples are: "Somewhere ages and ages hence" and "Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back." Speaking in this way makes it easier for people of the author's time period to identify with the author. It would be much more difficult, for example, for the same readers to understand a poem that was written in the British style. Another poetic device Frost uses also deals with the structure of the poem. The stanza breaks help to show the completion of thoughts. In this poem, Frost uses stanza break to separate descriptions of each road, his plan for coming back again, and his lament for not being able to take both paths. The effective use of stanza break helps keep the reader from getting confused. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, Frost's writing often revolves around or takes place in nature. In this poem, nature is the setting for the action. Frost is generally very good at describing nature. In this poem, he uses descriptive words and phrases such as yellow, gra
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Approximate Word count = 777
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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