Rhetorical Analysis On The Road Not Taken

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Allen John
Dr. Clay
ENGL 1301-84073
28 February 2016
The Road Not Taken
After reading the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, I have realized that there is so much deeper meaning and figurative language to ponder about. After extensive research into the poem, I found out that “The Road Not Taken” was first published in 1916 in Mountain Interval. The setting was truly beautiful because it was set in a natural and rural environment.
This poem uses a metaphor throughout in which the journey of life is compared to the two roads. We always have choices, and each choice has its own consequences. Whether the outcome be good or bad is in the decision itself. The speaker of the poem must decide on one road rather than another. He looks at each path (which are both equally attractive) and realizes that his choice would have an influence on his future life. He makes a decision and …show more content…

He tells himself that he will try to come back so he could have the pleasure of seeing where the first road ends up, but also admits that coming back was probably not going to happen. I noticed that the exclamation point he put in at the end of line 13 showed that he was excited about his decision and the journey that would come along with it. In line 14 and 15 he said that it was unrealistic for him to come back to the two diverging roads.
In lines 16-20, the tone shifted. This stanza was the only one that started with a new sentence. Every other stanza was part of the stanza before it. This shows that the last stanza is more important from the others and tries to get on a deeper level with the mind. In this stanza, he imagines himself in the future. At the end of the stanza, he claims that the roads were not similar from each other and that he bravely did not choose the most common route. Maybe he will actually believe that he chose the right way in the future. All he wanted to do was take “the one less

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