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“The Road Not Taken” is a poem that has four five-line stanzas with only two end rhymes in each stanza (a, b, a, a, b). ... The underlying meaning refers to Frost’s own life, and the decisions he made therein. ... Here, the road represents choice. The poet’s tone and setting illustrates the turmoil that one goes through when deciding which path to take in life. ... The poet has also used imagery as a literary device to create a scenario in the reader’s mind.
In the first stanza, the poem describes a traveler coming to a fork in a road and wants to be able to “travel both” routes. ... In the first line, Frost uses the metaphor “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” to represent life itself. ... One would not know what stands ahead him if he were standing at the edge of the woods, due to blockages like leaves and branches. ... He analyzed the road exactly like he did for the first one, how it looked just as tough, just as long and “just as fair”.
Approximate Word count = 782
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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