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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN FROST FULL
The poem’s rhyme scheme is particularly original, with the poet using full rhyme in the entire poem except where he utilizes half rhyme in lines 17 and 20. The poem is divided into four stanzas with five lines each where the rhymes form regular pattern and the rhyme scheme in each stanza is identical. The poem uses the rhyme scheme ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH.
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The poem also uses antithesis, where the speaker wants to use both paths, which is figuratively and literally impossible. The fork in the road is a symbol of the choices that people must make in life, while the road taken symbolizes the choice and the subsequent journey of life. The poem also uses symbolism, in which ideas or objects are used to represent something else. The narrator realizes that the road he or she chose to take changes is or her life, making all the difference in the narrator’s life (Frost, 2015). One of the literary devices used in ‘The Road Not Taken’ is epiphany, in which the narrator has an insight that bears his or her choices and outcomes. The title has figurative and literal meaning with both emphasizing the road that was not taken or chosen, rather than the road which the narrator took. On the other hand, the title may also focus the poem’s meaning on the right choice which the narrator made by choosing to travel on a road that most people did not take. In this case, the poem’s title focuses the content of the poem on the speaker’s lost opportunities, which are symbolized by the road he chose to take. The title of this poem is significant to its meaning and content. Indeed, the mood forks similar to the road described in the poem. The poem’s mood, therefore, can be considered to reflect the narrator looking back with pride because he made the right choice in life or as a regretful recounting of the choices made by the narrator (Frost, 2015). Generally, the mood in this poem reflects the narrator’s emotional state. However, the mood is also ambiguous which means that different readers could view this poem as either regretful or nostalgic. The mood in ‘The Road Not Taken’ is nostalgic as the speaker looks back with sentimental emotions on his past. By taking the road less traveled, the narrator implies that he chose not to conform to society’s expectations. Since the narrator cannot simultaneously choose both options, he or she agonizes about which choice will be more meaningful to his life in the long term. Further, the speaker can see two roads in his mind, which represents the two options that he must choose from to continue with the journey of life. The setting symbolizes the mind of the speaker with the ‘yellow wood’ implying that the speaker is in the later stages of his life (Frost, 2015). In addition, the poem is set in the morning where the leaves were still fresh on both paths and had not been trodden (Frost, 2015). These two roads in the woods confuse the poem’s narrator and there is no sign to indicate where wither path leads. In this case, the yellow wood signifies that the situation in the poem is set in early autumn as this is when leaves turn yellow.
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The literal setting or situation in this poem is a path inside a yellow wood that diverges or forks out into two paths. In the end, the narrator chooses the less travelled road and says that this less-convenient path over the easy path made all the difference (Frost, 2015). Further, whereas one road has been used frequently and is safer, the other road is overlaid and has not been used frequently. The narrator is traveling through the woods and comes across a forked road, where he or she must make a choice on the road to continue travelling on. It could have been better - I noticed that the weight of each letterforms isn't exactly equal after I started filling them in, by then it was too late to erase and redo :( However, I am overall happy with the way it turns out.The main theme in this poem is choice, with the poet walking on a road that splits into two directions and he must make a choice. It's challenging to keep everything balanced and pleasant at the same time.Īfter numerous rounds of erasing and re-drawing, I thickened the outline around the letterforms and filled them in. I struggled the most with the composition and flourishing. I started by doing a light sketch of the letterforms. I chose to draw one of my favorite passage from a poem by Robert Frost :