![]() Imagery is mostly visual however there is also a little bit of auditory imagery when the speaker sighs. Imagery is very important in The Road Not Taken because the narrator is describing the setting for most of the poem. ![]() This theme resonates with society today because no matter of what our choices and decisions are, we must live with that decision and take ownership of the consequences. One choice would lead the speaker down a path that was “grassy and wanted wear” as to where to other path was “more worn by passersby.” (Frost) The narrator must be content with his choice because there is no going back to change his mind. The speaker is confronted with the fork in the road and must make a choice. Robert Frost presents a theme about choices and how a person is defined by said choices. (Deen) Themes bring depth and consistency to any form of writing and themes make it easier for the reader to follow. The theme is the underlying message of what the character ultimately realizes. For example: (A) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, (B) And sorry I could not travel both, (A) And be one traveler, long I stood, (A) And looked down one as far as I could, (B) To where it bent in the undergrowth. The rhyme of a poem could be described as a pattern of rhyming sounds, while the rhyme scheme is the recurrence of similar-sounding words at the end of a line. Rhyme schemes almost make up the form of a poem and in this case the scheme is ABAAB. (Rizzoli) The Road Not Taken is a simple-looking poem that consists of four stanzas of five lines. A poem’s form is basically how it looks and sounds. Form can be one of the toughest elements to identify when doing an analysis. Frost mastered the idea of ambiguity since he never indicates whether the choice the speaker made was the right one or not. Life always presents us with choices, but when making a choice it is more than that, the choice becomes a decision. (Rizzoli) One should make the decision swiftly and most importantly, with confidence. When making choices it is often impossible to see where a life-altering decision will lead. The Road Not Taken dramatizes the conflict between choosing which road to travel and which to leave behind. Perhaps the poet refers to his choice of profession as a poet and his sailing to England (in 1912) leaving behind the safe but beaten tracks of his motherland where he could have led a happy and contented life of a farmer.In this poem, Frost presents a speaker who has an internal conflict on which of the two roads he or she should take. His statement ‘this has made all the difference’ is a sort of confession of repentant, hesitation, and sighing. The speaker doesn’t seem happy because he regrets having taken up the second road. The two roads depict the confusion, in spite of making a choice one is never content and feels may be the other choice was better. To think off the beaten track always pays and makes the difference. Very few dare to take up challenges and choose a less traveled road. ![]() Hence, they often follow the less risky and more acceptable decisions. Generally, people are confused when they have to make a choice because it has far-reaching consequences. Though his decision to take the less-traveled road has made all the difference. The man then says that he will be telling with a ‘ sigh‘ someday in the future, still thinking what life would have been if he had chosen the more traveled road. Though he is not sure if ever again he would pass by it because one road leads to another and leaves no chance to change one’s decision, so he won’t get a chance to go back. He chooses the less traveled, grassy road because it needs wear and leaves the other road for some other day. The man stands there contemplating, and feels sad that he is unable to travel on both roads as both of them seem to be rewarding. The two roads in fact represent two alternative ways of life. The poet uses the fork in the road as a metaphor for the choices a person makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a fork, in the road he is traveling upon. The poet’s experience becomes symbolic of human experience in all ages and countries. It is a great lyric that records a personal experience of the poet, but from the personal and the individual the poet soon rises to the universal and the general.
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