The Road Not Taken analysis
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 that the speaker’s tone begins to
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Some common words found in the essay are:
, choose road, road traveled, chose road, speakers tone, third stanza, pick road, choose road traveled, stanza yellow, road travel, reader determine, word yellow, yellow wood seemingly, roads diverged yellow, diverged yellow wood, frost roads diverged,
Approximate Word count = 2155
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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