Silvia Osorio
ELA 8
Ms. Stronks
February 16, 2016
The Road Not Taken Analysis
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost’s is one of his most spectacular poems. It has four stanzas and five lines in each, the pattern in each line is an ABAAB pattern. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker, while strolling in the forest on an autumn day, in a forest when the leaves have changed to yellow. He has to choose between two paths that go in different directions. He has regrets choosing one path over another, he pauses for a long while to consider his choices. In the first stanza and the beginning of the second, one road seems much more preferable. But by the beginning of the third stanza he has decided that the paths are roughly equivalent. Later in the third stanza, he tries to reassure himself up by saying that he will return someday and walk the other path. At the end of the third stanza and in the beginning of the fourth, the speaker continues his initial tone of sorrow and regret. He realizes that he probably will never be able to come back to walk the alternate path. In the fourth stanza he considers how the choice he must make now between the two paths will look to him in the future. The speaker believes that when he looks back in his lifetime, he will see that he had actually chosen the “less traveled” road
Frost wrote the poem in the first person, which could mean that the speaker is Frost himself or, a character created for the purpose of the poem. Some of the symbolism in the poem is used when the speaker must choose between the two separate paths in a wood, and he sees that as he has to make a decision on which path of ice he's going to take. In lines one and eighteen, the readers could believe that Frost made those two lines match to make a point across that at the beginning of the poem he didn't know which path to take, and still and the end he didn't know which road to take. In conclusion "The Road Not Taken" is a great poem and would love to read it again.
ELA 8
Ms. Stronks
February 16, 2016
The Road Not Taken Analysis
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost’s is one of his most spectacular poems. It has four stanzas and five lines in each, the pattern in each line is an ABAAB pattern. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker, while strolling in the forest on an autumn day, in a forest when the leaves have changed to yellow. He has to choose between two paths that go in different directions. He has regrets choosing one path over another, he pauses for a long while to consider his choices. In the first stanza and the beginning of the second, one road seems much more preferable. But by the beginning of the third stanza he has decided that the paths are roughly equivalent. Later in the third stanza, he tries to reassure himself up by saying that he will return someday and walk the other path. At the end of the third stanza and in the beginning of the fourth, the speaker continues his initial tone of sorrow and regret. He realizes that he probably will never be able to come back to walk the alternate path. In the fourth stanza he considers how the choice he must make now between the two paths will look to him in the future. The speaker believes that when he looks back in his lifetime, he will see that he had actually chosen the “less traveled” road
Frost wrote the poem in the first person, which could mean that the speaker is Frost himself or, a character created for the purpose of the poem. Some of the symbolism in the poem is used when the speaker must choose between the two separate paths in a wood, and he sees that as he has to make a decision on which path of ice he's going to take. In lines one and eighteen, the readers could believe that Frost made those two lines match to make a point across that at the beginning of the poem he didn't know which path to take, and still and the end he didn't know which road to take. In conclusion "The Road Not Taken" is a great poem and would love to read it again.