Jane Horrocks

In the poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, Frost uses imagery, formal diction, a consistent meter and many other literary devices to describe the act of decision-making and how we justify the decisions we have made. Frost also leaves the literal/figurative meaning of the poem up to the reader’s interpretation. Frost’s use of imagery, is perhaps the strongest of all the poetic devices that he has weaved into the poem. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...and i'm sorry I could not travel

W.H. Auden’s The Average and Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken mutually explore fate and how decisions affect it. Auden considers this through a young man’s journey towards the future while Frost conveys it through a reflection on a past choice. The parents of Auden’s protagonist metaphorically ‘killed themselves with toil’ granting him the opportunity to seek a profession that symbolically ‘encourages shallow breathing’ placing pressure on the speaker to ensure their efforts were not futile. In

Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” depicts an individuals dilemma of making a choice and ultimately taking a risk. The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme schemes are ABAAB. The rhymes are strict and masculine however, the tone notably changes on the last line. A masculine rhyme is a rhyme of final stressed syllables. The uses of the masculine rhyme, allowed too create the tone, and mood of the poem. This rhyme made the poem sound serious and the poet was able to make

Sometimes in our lives we are faced to make momentous decisions. We either made a propitious selection or repent about our decisions and how our lives could have ended up if we had chosen a different path. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a poem about how one traveler will choose a road that will change his whole life. The decisions we make in life should be chosen carefully because there is no going back. In his poem, he makes you think about how choices can define your life for the better

Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and Rudyard Kipling all have an incredible sense for poetry. “The Road Not Taken”, “Dreams”, and “If-” all have many themes, unique writing styles, and clever uses of rhetorical devices. In “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost leaves a major theme of making choices. The poem is about a man traveling and he comes across a fork-in-the-road. He must make a decision on which way he will keep traveling. One way seems familiar to him. It is by far the safer and easier route

In the story, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, there is a tale about a traveler, that has walked upon a set of two roads (ln. 1). Although this is what the story literally says, there is hidden meaning behind its words. There is a difference between reading a poem, and understanding what a poem is trying to tell you. This hidden meaning is called a theme. A theme is something that is to be learned as a lesson or understood to give a different or new perspective on something. The theme of any

The poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost clearly demonstrates the use of the theme, growing up is a challenge for everyone. The narrator relates to people growing up by facing issues with making a decision he is uncertain about, and he ultimately regrets the choice he made. To begin, Frost writes “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood” (Frost 1-3). These lines of the poem are an analogy to a difficult decision the narrator

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by.” We all have heard this famous line from Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” He has really taken the road not taken; he has overcome the stereotype of being just another dead white man. Robert Frost’s work and legacy is still important to American Literature. His works continue to be read in classrooms around the world. He still has a historical significance to this day. In late 2006 an unknown poem of Robert Frost’s was discovered

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is an amazing poem that relates to my life and all the different and important decisions we need to make in our lives looking at the pros and cons. The poem helps you realize that there will always be choices throughout your life and your always gonna have to think about what works out for you.This poem relates to the world well because whenever you try to make a good decision you might make the wrong choice, but that’s what you learn from and keep trying on from

The poem the road not taken was written by Robert Frost and was published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval. In the first five lines the narrator discovers a road with two split passages and wishes he could go down both roads. He knows in reality that he cannot take both roads so he knows he have to make a decision. It sounds like this poem is about decision making. Looking down one path and noticing the grass being worn out, knowing too many people been down that road