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The Road Not Taken Interpretation

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The Road Not Taken is made up of four stanzas of five lines, and each line has among eight and ten syllables, the lines in each stanza rhyme, and the rhyme scheme is (abaab). The speaker must choose between separating paths in a yellow wood, and he realizes that choice as a metaphor for selecting between different routes in life. But, for such an obvious simple poem, it has been themed to very different thoughts of how the speaker feels about his state and how the reader is to view the speaker.

The author speaks in the first person, which makes the question of if the speaker is the poet himself or a character, a character created for the reasons of the poem. In the first stanza of the poem, the narrator, while hiking/walking on an autumn …show more content…

He finds out that he probably will never come back to walk the other path. The speaker thinks that when he looks remembers a lot of years later; he will see that he had really chosen the "less traveled" road. He also thinks that he will later find out what a huge change this decision has made in his life. Two important points imply that the narrator thinks that he will later regret having trailed his chosen road: Because the poem is called "The Road Not Taken" meaning that he will never stop thinking about the other path he could have taken.

The poem is about real and figurative roads, the roads we pace and drive on, furthermore the streets we take throughout living our lives, as the narrator of this poem considers, for all the roads we take, there is a road we don't take. Incorrect turns or not, the roads we take can finish up making important changes within our lives. And we will always dream about the roads that we did not …show more content…

He does not tell us very much about him, although we know that he is confronting a great choice/decision, the path he is walking on, and the life he's controlling, is split into two different roads up onward. Leaves are dropping and the woods are yellow, so, if the woods are a metaphor aimed at the narrator's life, we can guess that he is someplace in the fall of his life, perhaps in his forties or fifties. In this period of his lifetime, it's possibly too late to return and change his mind when he makes great decisions; he knows that he perhaps will certainly not have enough time.

The decision he is against might be approximately like substituting jobs or moving to another place. He can just be taking the usual mid-life crisis, uncertain if he enjoys where his life is reaching, even if he constantly believed he would. All the decision is, it must be the big one, because he recognizes that he will still be speaking about it far in the future, saying that it created a large change in his

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