Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874. His parents were Isabel Moodie and William Prescott Frost, Jr. His father drank and gambled a lot, which upset the whole family. In 1875, he became the city editor of the San Francisco Daily Evening Post. On June 25, 1876, Robert's sister Jeannie was born.

In 1879, Frost entered kindergarten but came home after one day because of nervous stomach pain and did not return afterward. The next year, he tried to go to the first grade, but dropped out again. The same happened the next year after that. He was home schooled. In 1883, Frost heard some voices while he was alone. His mom tells him that he shares her gift of "second hearing" and "second sight," which is the idea that some people hear spirits or ghosts, when no one else can.

There are many poetic devices in "The Road Not Taken." The first one that jumps out at the reader is the use of figurative language. Figurative language is language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. One knows this from reading the poem because the poem is meant to be read with the idea that it has an underlying meaning. It is not meant to be read as a story about a man walking in the woods and having to decide which trail he wants to take. Frost meant for the reader to read what is happening in the story and then to interpret the idea that it is a metaphor for life's choices. Another poetic device Frost uses is imagery. Imagery is words or phrases that create pictures or images in the reader's mind. Frost uses imagery when he describes the setting (the woods) to get the reader to see it in their mind. This is obvious from lines one to five when he is writing about the "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." He describes the woods, but does it in a way that the reader will understand that the two roads symbolize two choices.

"The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost is an enjoyable poem that is a metaphor for life. On a superficial level, this poem is about someone walking through the woods, coming to two possible ways to go, and then choosing one. The narrator chooses the one less traveled, and later says that they do not regret it. The underlying meaning of "The Road Not Taken" is that the narrator is using the woods and paths as a metaphor for the choices people have to make in life. That is the main theme of the poem. It is obvious from lines six to ten that the narrator took the path that was less traveled. In other words, the narrator did not follow the crowd, but instead made his own choice.

Robert Frost (1874-1963). Exploring Poetry. 1994

In 1891, Frost passed the entrance exams to get into Harvard. When he was there, he met and fell in love with Elinor Miriam White. The next year he became engaged to her. Since he had to depend on his grandparents for money, he entered Dartmouth College because it was cheaper, and because his grandparents blamed Harvard for all of his father's drinking and gambling problems. That December, he left college because he was bored with it and wanted something to do. In 1893, he taught a rowdy eighth grade glass for a couple of weeks. Then he tried to convince Elinor to marry him before he went to St. Lawrence University in New Yord, but she said no. Through the rest of the 1890's, Frost worked as a teacher, farmer, and an editor. During this time is when he collected lots of material that would make the themes of his most famous poems.

Through the use of poetic devices, figurative language and imagery,

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