In addition, the poet adheres to a strict pattern of nine syllables per line. The rhyme scheme in each stanza follows the pattern of ABAAB. “The Road Not Taken” has four stanzas and each of these has four lines. The tone of the poem changes from time to time but the poet mainly employs nostalgia in his work. Other literary devices that are employed in the poem include rhymes and rhythms. Frost addresses universal themes that are easy to connect with and this increases the poem’s potential audience. The road is a symbol of the direction of life and the diversion represents the different options that are manifested in form of life-choices. According to the speaker, “two roads diverged in a yellow wood….and sorry I could not travel both” (Dickinson et al. The road is the poem’s main symbol and it is used by the poet to indicate the path of life. One of the literary tools that are used to reiterate the reflective nature of the poem is symbolism. Nevertheless, the speaker realizes that the ability to go back in time and take the alternative path is quite limited.įrost uses a reflective tone in his poem to indicate the impact choices can have on an individual’s life. In the latter part of the poem, the speaker expresses the desire to travel through the road he/she did not take. However, the speaker reckons that in reality the two roads are “worn… really about the same” (Dickinson et al. In the speaker’s thoughts, the road that he/she took is the one that is less worn out. After some deliberations, the speaker decides to take one of the paths. The speaker’s main dilemma is lack of choice because he/she can only follow one of the paths.
After encountering the fork in the woods, the speaker begins to contemplate about which road to choose. In Frost’s poem, the speaker has encountered a diversion in the middle of a path. This paper is an analysis of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”. Frost’s poem uses several literary tools to pass its message. The poet argues that the choices that a person makes in life are usually ‘for better or for worse’. In several instances, the title of Frost’s poem has been mistaken for “The Road Less Travelled”. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem that explores the choices that a person makes in life. The author of “The Road Not Taken” has received widespread recognition for his work in literature including winning a number of Pulitzer Prizes. “The Road Not Taken” uses similar colloquial language as well as the rural American setting to pass several philosophical and sociological messages. Robert Frost uses a distinct mastery of the colloquial language as well as vivid depictions of rural life in most of his poems. Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, has remained an influential literary piece over the last few decades.
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This journal follows ISO 9001 management standard and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Robert Frost is one of the most renowned poets in the twentieth century. Paper submission email: add our address into your email contact list. Please contact the administrator of this platform. This study tries to come, as close as it can, to the text in order to deconstruct it and come up with a new reading of the poem by applying the principles of the theory of Deconstruction, for the first time, to the text and to the main differences upon which the aesthetic value of the poem rests. All the readings lead one to the other, but no critic can say that this particular reading is better. Critics wrote controversial essays on the poem and its meanings, yet, no particular reading can be considered inclusive. The text gives itself to reading and speculation by its power of generating new meanings, everlasting sweetness, and aesthetic value. Any critic of the poem can go so far as to say that the poem is one of the World's masterpieces. "The Road not Taken," is, no doubt, one of Robert Frost's major poems.
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