"The Road Not Taken" Explication

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The poem “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, presents the idea of decision-making and choosing what direction life will take you.  The speaker arrives at a fork in the road and both paths are equally worn.  The speaker chooses to take the one less traveled by, telling himself that he will take the other another day. However, he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to.  The poem is an extended metaphor, where the speaker illustrates a path in the woods that is comparable to an important decision in life.  In the poem, the speaker is “lost”,
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both on the trail, and in life."The Road Not Taken" consists of four stanzas of five lines.  Each stanza has an identical rhyme scheme of ABAAB.  The first, third, and fourth lines in every stanza rhyme, along with the second and fifth lines.  This seems to make the poem flow at a smoother and steadier pace.  In reality, a person's life can easily be related to a journey filled with many different directions and decisions.  The speaker shows the reader a person’s decision, at an important point in his life, symbolized by “two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” In ...

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