Everyone has or will meet some crosses and turn points on the road of their life that they have to choose one from the other. An individual may deal with the same situation in a completely opposite way to others and his choice probably will result in a distractive future. For example, our ancestor’s choice of leaving Africa and migrating to other continents causes a multicultural world with multiplicity and complexity. The Road Not Taken” is one of the most famous poems Robert Frost composed in the year 1916; written in pentameter five feet includes four stanzas of five lines for each with the basic rhyme of ABAAB. The poet recalled a choice he made between “two roads diverged in a yellow wood”; his struggles about the future and self-examination
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Frost himself said in his seminal essay “ Education By Poetry” that “ poetry provides that one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.”(Frost, 36) One of the exemplars of this technique is “ the life is a journey”, the invisible path change as we make choices. Frost illuminates that “yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.”; the flooding of time is ineluctable and irreversible, we cannot back to the past and change our decision. In this poem, two roads diverge in the wood horizontally and will not meet again. Human have “free will” to choose, but the results cannot be changed. Another way to explain the metaphor within “the road” is roads are artificial which symbols human; “the yellow wood” is the nature. There is not path in the nature until the people build it with their feet. “ And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth;”, at the this point, narrower cannot see further is not because “it bent” but the rest of the road doesn’t exist yet. This attitude of the connection between nature and human happened to coincide with Christianity and Taoism, a Chinese religion emphasizes life in a harmony with “Tao”(means “ way and principle”) . Dan Brown asserted that “ a poem needn’t be replete with metaphors, of course, but it’s an unusual poem that doesn’t have any.” The truth is the polar opposite: the metaphor is the foundation of this
Frost himself said in his seminal essay “ Education By Poetry” that “ poetry provides that one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another.”(Frost, 36) One of the exemplars of this technique is “ the life is a journey”, the invisible path change as we make choices. Frost illuminates that “yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.”; the flooding of time is ineluctable and irreversible, we cannot back to the past and change our decision. In this poem, two roads diverge in the wood horizontally and will not meet again. Human have “free will” to choose, but the results cannot be changed. Another way to explain the metaphor within “the road” is roads are artificial which symbols human; “the yellow wood” is the nature. There is not path in the nature until the people build it with their feet. “ And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth;”, at the this point, narrower cannot see further is not because “it bent” but the rest of the road doesn’t exist yet. This attitude of the connection between nature and human happened to coincide with Christianity and Taoism, a Chinese religion emphasizes life in a harmony with “Tao”(means “ way and principle”) . Dan Brown asserted that “ a poem needn’t be replete with metaphors, of course, but it’s an unusual poem that doesn’t have any.” The truth is the polar opposite: the metaphor is the foundation of this