“I shall be telling this with a sigh/ Somewhere ages and ages hence/Two roads diverged, in a wood, and I-/took the one less traveled by.” When he is older, he’ll exaggerate about the significant difference between the paths to make the story worthwhile. “And that makes all the difference.” (Frost505) a metaphor expressing the choices you make will define you. This subliminally teaches a person to have confidence in the choices made because if you don’t “you’ll sigh and had wished you had taken another.” (Spacey) Sometimes there’s no way of determining which is the better route. It can be read as a moment of hesitation. The poet doesnt know where to go, but roads are probably life paths and not only simple. As do many adults often wonder about the what if’s and fantasize about what could have been’s but are left to face the reality of what it truly is. The Road Not Taken 1 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by.' See in text (The Road Not Taken) The repetition of I, accentuated by the long dash and the line break, serves two purposes. This poem is about a very difficult choice beetween two roads. “Oh, I kept the first for another day!/ Yet knowing how way leads on to way./ I doubted if I should ever come back.” (Frost505) A metaphor the shows the uncertainty behind the path he has chosen to take but he’s made his choice and can’t take it back. “because it was grassy and wanted wear / Though as for that the passing there/ Had worn them really about the same,” (Frost504) this is where he realizes different people benefit under different circumstances and whatever path he may decide to take needs to be the most purposeful to his journey. A metaphor for choice, hesitant on which path to choose, the man explores his options trying to base his decision on which path looks the most pleasing. This animation is part of our series, Theres a Poem for That, which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to. The third A rhyme, which causes each stanza. The rhyme scheme in each of the four stanzas is ABAAB. The fork in the road is a metaphor for the choices we must make as we navigate our path. This meter gives the poem a sense of propulsion and forward movement, fitting for a poem about a traveler. The road in the poem is a metaphor for life and the path we take through it. The speaker is a conflicted man taking a walk through the woods when he comes to a fork in the road. See in text (The Road Not Taken) The Road Not Taken employs iambic tetrameter, a metrical scheme that features four beats to the line.
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