Jane Horrocks

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about a choice, and when we are faced with making a decision we have to choose one, but that also means that we have to give up on the other opportunity to do something else. That one decision can determine our entire lives. When the speaker chose “the one less traveled by,” the speaker says, “ has made all the difference.” The poem begins with a dilemma, the need to come up with a decision and solve the problem. When out walking, the speaker comes to a fork

The poem “The road not taken” by Robert Frost tells about a person at a fork in the road trying to make a decision on which road to take. The narrator of the poem tells the reader that their tone is reflective and contemplation. The poem also show that Robert frost uses figurative language to better his meanings. Therefore, Robert Frost uses metaphors and rhyme in this poem. As a result, Robert Frost uses metaphors to give an idea on how life can become a process of decisions that can better

The Road not Taken was a poem wrote by Robert Frost in 1916. A traveler had to pick what path to take and he was confused on what he wanted to take. One path was always taken by everyone because there was barely any grass, but the other path was never taken as it had a lot of grass. The theme of the poem is about making choices in life. In the first stanza the traveler was sad for not taking the one path but he could only take one. He was standing in the woods deciding on which path he wanted to

The poem ‘‘the road not taken’’ shares with us the difficulty between hard decisions. Robert Frost does this by using figurative language and metaphors to portray a hidden message. The poem is about a man who talks about a story in his past where he is walking in a forest during autumn when the road splits into 2 different roads. One of the roads is the most commonly taken and the other is only rarely taken, the man can’t see where each one leads to so decides to pick the least used road. An important

Thematic Analysis: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost Four stanzas with a ton of meaning and a theme that is meant to describe the choices that one makes in a lifetime. The only part that is difficult to diffuse is the use of the term yellow wood; if indeed it is supposed to carry a particular meaning. For the most part the rest of the poem is filled with one major theme and a few minor themes. Rare is it to find so few words that say so much. Robert Frost is saying simply that at some point

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost explores different perspectives and the difficulty of life’s choices. The poem is about how life gives us two roads, the difficult road and the easy road. A traveler is walking and comes across two paths one more used than the other. He eventually choses the road less travelled on. A literary technique Frost utilizes is tone. The persona in the poem has a somber, sentimental tone. The somberness of the poem is demonstrated effectively through tone in

The text The Road Not Taken by Robert Lee Frost and the text Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare both use a similar topic of text structure to express the central idea and theme. The authors want to prove they're different topic. The authors are slightly different when they wrote there poem. Both text compare because they are both poem uses same figurative language. However, the author's text structure each selection differently because Sonnet 73 only has 1 stanza and The Road Not Taken has 4 stanzas

Karen Clow Explication of “The Road Not Taken” The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is written to explain how a man is reflecting on a choice that he once made. So, the choice that the speaker makes in the poem may not be intended to be positive nor negative, but the choice that was made in itself and the consequences made a huge difference in how his life has unfolded. The poem is about how important choices are. In the beginning of the poem the speaker is regretting the fact that he

Life is teeming with choices. Starting the moment one is born and until their time of death, people have to make constant choices everyday. Life can be imagined as a long, tortuous highway that has countless other roads branching off in several directions. A human's existence is too short to test every road. Ultimately, the choices we make affect every outcome in life. In the poems, “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, there is a similar theme that depicts

The Road Not Taken Through the course of our life we make decision that with or without our own knowledge will have a significant impact on our life. This is something that all know to be true. The author Robert Frost also knows this to be true. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” Frost addressed the concept of decisions how they are difficult to make, the mentality to have when making a decision, and also how he feel a decision should be made. In the poem Frost makes it evident that he feels that