Essay about The Road Not Taken, and Nothing Gold Can Stay

The poem could  also have a deeper meaning as well. This path could be considered deciding to make a choice  in real life. For instance, someone thinking about making a major decision in life when met with difference obstacle. Another idea is that the roads could

Life is difficult because no one can be sure if the choice they make will actually lead the outcome they wished for. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, one of the most recognizable poems in American literature, speaks to choices people face in their life. The speaker has to make a right choice for him, that will lead to the outcome of being what he really wants to be. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost uses symbolism, imagery, personification, and metaphor, to explain its theme that choices made by the one's strong wish of what one really wants to be, will ultimately lead to the desired outcome.

Furthermore, we have the use of first person, where the almost universal effect is to have an in-depth look into the character and their immediate response to a problem or dilemma. This poem no different, where in the first stanza we are ushered in with the use of anaphora in lines 2, 3 and 4 with the repetition of the word ‘’and’’. This specific use of anaphora is used to create the mindset and intelligible deduction of the traveller to the events and dilemma prescribed to him. Insofar as his immediate reaction be being presented with a choice. It shows his reaction of regret in that he is ‘’sorry he could not travel both’’ and explains what he wish he could do ‘’be two travellers’’ but also how he initiates his decision making process ‘’looked down one as far as I could’’. Also, the use of first person is used to connect with the reader, enforcing the affore-used notion that the reader substitutes their own personal truth into a positive

“The Road Not Taken” is a poem about how it is important to make a choice in life. In the beginning of the poem, the man is hating that he had to be stuck with the road he chose instead of being able to take both paths. The man tried to look farther down the paths that he could’ve chosen to go down, but the man was only able to see to the point that the road curved and was no longer visible. Stanza # 2, the man indicated that he took the road he felt looked better and could’ve been better because

Robert Frost's poem “The Road Not Taken” describes a traveler faced with a choice of which one of two roads to travel. He knows not where either road might lead. In order to continue on his journey, he can pick only one road. He scrutinizes both roads for the possibilities of where they may take him in his travels. Frost's traveler realizes that regret is inevitable. Regardless of his choice, he knows that he will miss the experiences he might have encountered on the road not taken.

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, Frost shows the everyday human struggle to make a choice that could change the course of one’s life. In his poem, a person has the choice to take one road or the other. One road is worn out from many people taking it, and the other is barely touched, for fewer have taken that road. Throughout the poem, the speaker learns that just because so many other people have done one thing, or walked one way, does not mean everyone has to. Sometimes you just have to go your own way.

‘The Road Not Taken’, the title of the poem can be interpreted in different ways. For instance, the title can be referred to the first or the second road in the poem. To be specific, the road in the poem can be the road which is used by the other travelers. On the other side, the road in the poem can be the road which the speaker chooses. In the poem, the speaker’s decision is to choose the road that was not taken (chosen) by the other travelers. At the same time, when the speaker chooses the second road, the first road can be termed as the road not taken. Besides, both the roads are similar and the speaker chose the

The first line in "The Road Not Taken" is "two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost 1). This gives the reader right off of two separate choices that the traveler can choose. The second line is "and sorry I could not travel both” (frost 2). This lets

?The Road Not Taken? (1916) tells of someone faced with two of life?s decisions however only one can be chosen. Whichever road is taken will be final and will determine the direction that their life takes. Frost drives this poem by a calm and collective narrative, spoken by the traveler of the diverged roads. Who is speaking with himself trying to convince himself of which road is the better choice. Frost wrote this poem using standard, modern language.

Instead, the speaker in “The Road Not Taken” tries to convince himself that he is in control of his life by repeating the idea that he took the road less traveled in the

Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Road Not Taken” centers on the concept of choice. Through the use of the central symbol, the poem expresses both the uncertainty of making a choice and the expectations of the choice made between seemingly equal options. The tone of the poem shifts throughout to show the decision-making process and the regret of choosing wrongly. While the poem gently ironizes the human response to decision making, it is also filled with the anticipation of remorse.

Life is a journey full of twists and turns and unbelievable surprises. Nobody knows where the path leads they can only move forward hoping for the best. “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost, 1916. In “The Road Not Taken” a traveler is strolling through the woods and comes across two different roads he could take, and unable to travel both the poet eventually chooses which path to take. The theme conveyed is about making choices. Frost does this through the use of diction, the use of figure of speech, and the use of imagery.

The fork in the road symbolizes a major decision in the narrator’s life. Much as in life, we are sometimes faced with two options of which we can only choose one. In the first stanza he looks long and hare at both of his options, trying to weigh which has the greatest potential. “And Looked down one as far/ I Could To where it bent in the undergrowth (Frost stanza 1). The narrator has thought of the dilemma over while trying to anticipate where one path would take him but, like many non-supernatural people he cannot predict the future. Frost is using metaphors to illustrate that the narrator has been given two choices can only choose one, Hopefully picking the right one.

In “The Road Not Taken” he said he took the wrong road in life. He thought the road with

The Road Not Taken is a twenty-line poem written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABAAB. This poem starts with the author walking through the woods. He comes to a fork in the path and is torn by which path to take...does he take the