What's the difficulty of big decision-making? For many people, the difficult choice of decision-making is the possibility of it being life-changing. In the poem “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost writes about the possibilities of taking on two roads (both representing life), showing how tough a decision can be for a person. The poem’s theme is every person would have to make and face the choices given to them and or they have created throughout their lives.
From the 1st stanza of the poem, the speaker is confronted with a problem. He discovers “two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” meaning a fork in the road has approached The imagery of the yellow wood, help show that it is around fall when the traveler receives his problem. The traveler …show more content…
The decision is hard for him, for he takes time looking at one of the paths, notices the “undergrowth”, but cannot see the end. This is where metaphorical metaphors can be show the most. The traveler is actual dealing with a fork in the road of his life. He is only able to see a portion of the future, not able to predict it fully. He does know what is going to happen at the end with the chosen …show more content…
Imagery was used again on line 12, with “In leaves no step had trodden black”. This helps makes the path looked covered with leaves, which haven’t been turned black by steps crushing them. However, earlier in the poem, one path was grassy and is now the path is covered with leaves. There is the option that the leaves are in-between the grass or maybe the speaker was not being honest. On line 13, the speaker shows to be regretting his decision. He is rethinking his choice by saying he will be back for the other path “another day”. With the “Oh” at the beginning and the exclamation at the end, the line helps creates emphatic. The traveler speaks strongly about what he is
From the 1st stanza of the poem, the speaker is confronted with a problem. He discovers “two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” meaning a fork in the road has approached The imagery of the yellow wood, help show that it is around fall when the traveler receives his problem. The traveler …show more content…
The decision is hard for him, for he takes time looking at one of the paths, notices the “undergrowth”, but cannot see the end. This is where metaphorical metaphors can be show the most. The traveler is actual dealing with a fork in the road of his life. He is only able to see a portion of the future, not able to predict it fully. He does know what is going to happen at the end with the chosen …show more content…
Imagery was used again on line 12, with “In leaves no step had trodden black”. This helps makes the path looked covered with leaves, which haven’t been turned black by steps crushing them. However, earlier in the poem, one path was grassy and is now the path is covered with leaves. There is the option that the leaves are in-between the grass or maybe the speaker was not being honest. On line 13, the speaker shows to be regretting his decision. He is rethinking his choice by saying he will be back for the other path “another day”. With the “Oh” at the beginning and the exclamation at the end, the line helps creates emphatic. The traveler speaks strongly about what he is