“I have said that Mr. Frost’s work is almost photographic. The pictures, the characters, are reproduced directly from life; they are burnt into his mind as though it were a sensitive plate.” (Lowell 222). Imagery builds a picture in one’s mind to help depict what moral Robert Frost is trying to produce. In the “The Road Not Taken” imagery is used, for example, in the line, “Two roads diverge in a yellow wood.” By Frost saying in a yellow wood, he is using imagery to infer that it is autumn and the leaves are falling. Then in the stanza, “And be one traveler, long I stood/ and looked down one as far as I could/ to where it bent in the undergrowth.” Frost creates a picture of a person looking down two different paths, deciding which path would be the better choice. The Moral in the poem “The Road Not Taken” is being independent and taking a different path than what others may have chosen imagery is also used in the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” It is shown by the stanza, “Nature’s first green is gold/ her hardest hue to hold. / her early leaf’s a flower; / but only so an hour.” This gives a strong image of the green leaves of spring and beautiful flowers blooming finally…