Sunday, July 26, 2009

What are the poetic devices of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?

Paying attention to the in "" actually reveals
a meaning that some readers miss. People have a tendency to want to believe that they have led
the more difficult lives and have made the more difficult choices in the various metaphorical
forks in the road of their own lives. And perhaps that is why this poem is often
misinterpreted.

The speaker uses imagery in the first stanza to help readers
envision the choice:

Two roads diverged in a yellow
wood

Two things are significant in the imagery here and
are important as metaphors. The speaker isn't following his own
path but a









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