In his own analysis of “The Road Not Taken,” Frost says the poem explores the nature of choices. But the poet builds layers of meaning we continue to debate decades after they were written. The words sound in the poem creates a quiet tone and moves differently at different places in the poem to give that meaning.I like the poems of Robert Frost, especially “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Road Not Taken.”Īt first the poems may appear to be about simple things like walking in the woods. It is irregularly pattern, which gives the poet the flexibility to express his ideas and move from one case to another. To where it bent in the undergrowth, he meant that standing and thinking carefully before going either way is an expression of the need to think carefully before starting any path. The life is exactly like a passing in a dense forest which we does not know where to go, but when he said “And looked down one as far as I could. The metaphorical language used by the poet when he likened the choices that man has to do it in a certain stage of his life in two divergent ways in a dense forest, is clearly expressed the situation of any one of us when he wants to pass one of the two paths. It is interesting to note that this poem may actually present a parallel to the life of Robert Frost. When the poet choses this “less traveled” road, the other road becomes “the road not taken.” So, the poet did not take the road “less traveled,” he took the road determined by choice and chance. The title of the poem can refer to either road because it says that the speaker takes the road “less traveled,” which means the road not taken by most travelers. He also used the commas to indicate the continuation of the previous idea, that punctuation was appropriate for the idea he put in each sentence. The poet used the capital letters at the beginning of each sentence in his poem. The poet used five sentences in each section of his poem which was simple sentences, nor did he follow the usual linguistic sequence in most of the sentences of the poem.
The sequence of the poem was temporal as it began at a certain moment and followed the event until it reached the conclusion. And I think this format is suitable for this kind of poem.
#Road not taken analysis free#
The form of the poem is a free form, the poet does not follow the traditional rules for writing poetry, the poet does not adhere to one meter, rhyme or rhythm. Given the choice between thinking well of ourselves or not – most people would choose to think well of themselves.
The speaker is revealing a characteristic about human nature. And I think that the tone of melancholy may be suitable for such poem this clear from some words, sentences the poet mentioned like “And sorry I could not travel both”, “I doubted if I should ever come back”, “I shall be telling this with a sigh”, etc. The poet speaks in melancholy and sighs about one stage of his life. In addition, line 8 in the second stanza, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear,” is an example of personification. “The Road Not Taken” is written in the first person and uses the personal pronoun “I” to personalise its meaning as an inner journey, which suggests that the reader has direct insight into the poet’s thoughts and feelings. We are free to choose, but we do not know beforehand what we are choosing. When standing at the edge of the woods, it is not possible to clearly see what lies ahead, as the view is obstructed by trees and branches. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” is the first line in the first stanza which is a metaphor in which the poet uses the woods to represent life. Forks have symbolised the connection between free will and fate. Paths in the woods and forks in a road are classic metaphors for the crises and decisions involved in life. The poem is an extended metaphor, he has likened the human’s age in one of its stages with two roads in the forest, and at one point one of them must be selected. Then he states that when one of the two routes is taken, it is difficult to return to the other. In the next verse the traveler realises that both roads are actually worn about the same. He stands a long time thinking both ways in all the obstacles or facilities in each of them, examines on of them carefully, and then chooses the other, because it is “grassy” and wanted wear”. It tells about the physical journey of a person travelling along a road and coming to this point.
The poem is a metaphor story, tells of every human being about his age when he reaches a crossroads, he has to choose between the two routes does not know the end of each.
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