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Robert Frost's analysis on Road Not Taken

One of Frost's commonest subjects is the choice the poet is faced with two roads, two ideas, two possibilities of action. "The Road Not Taken" deals with the choice between two roads, and with the results of the choice which the poet makes. It raises the evident question of whether it is better to choose a road in which many travel, or to choose the road less traveled and explore it yourself. In "The Road Not Taken," the speakers' tone and setting help illustrate the struggle a person goes through in their lives to pick the right road to travel. It is possible to read this poem as a statement of some self-pity on the poet's part, a feeling, perhaps, that he has been cheated and misunderstood because he took an unpopular path. To support this tone, one might point to the last stanza: The speaker will some day, sighing, tell others that he took the unknown road when faced with a choice. The reading, however, misses much of the significance of the second and third stanzas. At the!

end of the second, the speaker states that there was really not much difference in the two roads; neither had really been worn by traffic, though one had been given more wear than the other. It becomes obvious t

exactly what he does when he looks down the first road, at the end of the first stanza. The second stanza starts off with the speaker talking about the other path, and how it looked just as hard, just as long, and just as fair on this path as he did the first. Meaning that he took exactly every step analyzing this road as he did the other. The speaker ends the poem by stating that he chose the untravelled road, and that this choice has had a great significance in his life. After reading "The Road Not Taken," the reader can determine two literary elements, tone and setting. This poem supplies the reader with a situation that each person has to face at least one situation in their lives. That situation being that everyone has to struggle to try and put their life on the right road. The road which leads them to what they believe to be happiness. One of Frost's commonest subjects is the choice the poet is faced with two roads, two ideas, two possibilities of action. "The Road Not!

r than being sorry that he took the untravelled road, the poet seems to be saying that he would probably do the same thing again. The speakers tone seemed to have changed with confidence. This confidence, shown in verse eighteen, when the speaker repeats the first verse, except he leaves out the word yellow. Purposely leaving out the word yellow is an example of imagery. In the first stanza, yellow meant the color of the trees and foliage, and in the third stanza, they are no longer yellow. Also in the third stanza he says, "I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence." This isn't stated in a negative way, just as a way to portray the fact that he chose the right road. The sigh was to show that the road had not been easy. The setting in "The Road Not Taken," is very important. In the first verse of the first stanza, Frost says, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," which is seemingly a very important part of the poem. This line is a metaphor in which Fro!

st uses woods to represent life. Using this as an image helps to have a better understanding of the complexity of the problem that the speaker is facing. If someone was standing at the edge of some woods you would not be able to clearly see what was ahead of you, because it would be obstructed by trees and branches. Life is like those woods because no one can clearly see or predict what will happen in the future, only hope to choose a path that will lead you to good fortune and happiness. Another interesting part of the first verse is how he describes the woods. It describes the uncertainty of the speaker, and implies that he may be scared to even choose a path. Evidently he does not want to decide upon the wrong road and mess up his life. The reader can determine that as he stands before these two roads he is very confused and even frightened as in which road to pick. All he can do is look as far down each road as possible, and hope that he decides upon the right one. This is!

speaker is facing. If someone was standing at the edge of some woods you would not be able to clearly see what was ahead of you, because it would be obstructed by trees and branches. Life is like those woods because no one can clearly see or predict what will happen in the future, o

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Approximate Word count = 2179
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English