The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken Reading just the title of the poem “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost grabbed my attention. After reading this poem I realized how much this poem related to me. It felt like I had a personal connection with the author Robert Frost. This poem tells us that in life there will come a time where you have to choose a path, and that path has to be only your choice and not someone else’s. This poem is made up of four stanzas of five lines each, and each line has between eight and ten syllables in an iambic rhythm; the line in each stanza rhyme is abaab pattern. This was demonstrated through the poet’s use of metaphors, imagery and some poetic devices.

The poem as a whole is a metaphor itself. In the first line, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,”

The road splitting, is a metaphor for the choice of life. The nature of yellow wood can also be a metaphor for making decision during the fall of your life or when you’re growing up. In line 5 “To where it bent in the undergrowth;” this line can metaphorically mean that in the future your choices can be unclear, but you still have to make a decision. In line 4-5 “And looked down one as far as I could/To where it bent in the undergrowth;” In the woods we can only see a path for so far, this can be a metaphor for the consequences of our decision we make in our life for a short while in the future. In line 6 “Then took the other, as just as fair,” the person is thinking of which road he should take because both roads look similar, but its difficult to choose one path. In line 13-15