The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

Robert Frost has written a poem about death, consequence, and most importantly, how brief and fragile life can be. He uses a little child as an example to get the reader’s attention. His use of diction, imagery, and other literary devices to make the reader understand

Not only are metaphors utilized throughout the poem, but a literary device known as Imagery is as well. Imagery is alternative as important a device for it allows for the reader to have a clear picture of what the character in the poem is visualizing. Furthermore, it also helps covey the theme the author is aiming to represent to the reader. Imagery is made known in stanza two line three, which states, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (Myer, 1091). Here the author is using imagery to inform the readers the traveler is coming up with a reason for why one path could be more favorable over the other. The reader analyzes this line of imagery to obtain a clearer representation of the traveler’s decision-making process. Another line where the author uses imagery is in stanza two line five, which states, “Had worn them really about the same” (Myer, 1091). Here the author is using imagery to inform the reader that the paths are “worn” down, which informs the reader that both of his choices have been equally chosen by people before him. These examples help the reader begin to form the theme of self-justification in decision-making. After analyzing the metaphors and the imagery Frost uses in this poem, the reader can conclude so far that the theme the poet is conveying

So I decided to write an explication essay on the poem “The Road Not Taken”. The poem is by Robert Frost and it tells the story about a man who is thinking about something he had done before. Even though what he did wasn’t looked as being good or bad, it was indicated the decision he made had an outcome that caused a shift in his life.

Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out –“ is about a boy who has his arm sawed off during work and asks his sister not to let the doctor amputate his arm, he then realizes he’s lost too much blood and then dies while doctors try to save him. After his death everyone else continues on with their work and lives. Frost uses a lot of end-stopped lines, enjambment, repetition and personification among others in his lines of poetry.

In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-” the poet uses literary devices to describe the setting and thorough meaning of the poem. Frost has created a character during World War 1, and the character gets injured and dies from that injury. Frost reveals imagery, diction, and figurative language.

The average life expectancy in the world is seventy-two years. But life is not always made to work out that way. Robert Frost uses figurative language, such as allusion, personification, diction, imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to illustrate the brevity of life in “Out, out-.” He uses these devices to tell the story of a young boy who dies an irrational and unexpected death after an accident with a saw.

In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” an overwhelming theme of agony can be sensed as

Robert Frost exemplifies death through out all three of his poems. The first one, "After Apple Picking", was a little harder to get the idea that he was referring to death. Frost changes his structure of the poem from literally talking about apple picking to talking about the seasons changing and death. When he writes, "Upon my way to sleep before it fell, / And I could tell / What form my dreaming was about to take", he is referring to his death. The poem takes place while he is dreaming and then when he is done apple picking is when he dies. Frost doesn't give readers the truthful ending but that is just apart of his style. "Birches" was written in such a way that he uses the young boy climbing the tree to represent heaven but once he is

The poem, “Out-Out--”, by Robert Frost, is a rather peculiar poem that primarily may be tricky to understand. Nonetheless, it is intriguing and full of key examples of complex poetic terms, vocabulary, and structure. A key part of any literary work, the purpose, can be drawn from Out-Out--, that being to show that death calls to many people at any given time, and that no one dwells on the death of people or cares about others at all, and should.

Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost influenced my thorough love of different styles of literature, particularly poetry. To the masses, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost only share job titles, but the two poets share many similarities within their writing. Personally, I read pieces from both authors over the course of my schooling experience. I admired Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken” from a young age, and that particular stole my heart since the first read. “The Raven,” became one of my favorite poems further down my schooling career, with its clear ominous tone that symbolizes much of Poe’s writing. Frost’s and Poe’s works may not seem similar, aside from the section in which their books reside within a library, but their work resembles each other’s quite well. Frost’s writing serves as a better introduction to poetry due to his easily relatable themes, his background connects to everyday audiences, and his use of modern language.

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself “Did I make the right decision in my life?”? Most would answer yes to this question. Although some, would hide behind pride and rant on about their triumphs, or how they made just enough right choices to justify all the wrong. However, those same people lay awake when the morning dew is fresh, still counting the ways they may have been able to do better in the choices they made many years ago. Either way, if you admit it now or in the wee hours of the night, like most people, you will come across this question at least once in your life. Robert Frost was able to grasp this raw, vulnerable life changing moment in the palm of his hand. Then he beautifully laid it out in the form of words in the narrative poem “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is able to take you back to a time when you have been faced with a life-changing decision. Then, causing you to ask yourself “Did I make the right choice?”, “What caused me to choose the way I did?”, and “How did my choices long ago affect my life today?”. This is more than a poem, but rather a meaningful life lesson.

The poem “The Road Not Taken was written by Robert Frost, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, and also a special guest at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration ("Robert Frost Biography"). Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California and he died of complications from prostate surgery on January 29, 1963. Much of Robert’s popularity was gained throughout Europe (An Analysis of Robert Frost’s Poem: The Road Not Taken). Frost became a poetic force, and the unofficial "poet laureate" of the United States ("Robert Frost Biography").

“The Road Not Taken” was written by Robert Frost in 1916, and it was the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval (Shmoop). Even though it was written many years ago, people of all ages still study this enticing poem. Frost wrote about coming to a fork in the woods and examining which path he should take and whether he might ever come back; the speaker believes each path is fine to take, but he takes the less used path (line 6). He wrote about this decision in clear, standard English. “The Road Not Taken” is considered an allegory because of the hidden meaning about the speaker’s decision (Shmoop). There were many choices made throughout the poem based on coming to the fork, which resulted in an extended metaphor (Shmoop). Frost

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Death, be not proud” by John Donne are two poems with different meanings but share one of many of the same themes. Although the poems share different meanings as a whole, the reader can conclude the same common theme from both of these poems. Even though the reader may think the poems lack a same common theme, the theme is revealed by the end of both these poems. These two poems share the same theme of hopes and dreams. As the reader explores the same common theme of these two poems, the literary devices of personification, imagery, alliteration, metaphor, and irony can be seen throughout these poems as well.

Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. When his father died, he moved to Massachusetts with his family to be closer to his grandparents. He loved to stay active through sports and activities such as trapping animals and climbing trees. He married his co- valedictorian, Elinor Miriam White, in 1895. He dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard in his lifetime. Robert and Elinor settled on a farm in Massachusetts which his grandfather bought him, and it was one of the many farms on which he would live in throughout his life. Frost spend the next 9 years writing poetry while poultry farming. When poultry farming didn’t work out, he went back to teaching English. He moved to England in 1912 and became friends with many people who were also in the writing business. After moving back to America in 1915, Frost bought a farm in New Hampshire and began reading his poems aloud at public