Road Not Taken Metaphors
The Poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, is a very deep and moving story about the struggle of choices made in everyday life. Frost is figuratively stating in the poem that choices about a person’s future are usually very difficult to make and the outcomes will always be a mystery. Frost uses a good deal of poetic devices within this piece but theme and metaphor help give the story a better image for the reader. The major theme in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," is about making choices. The speaker in the poem in traveling and comes upon a cross roads or a fork-in-the-road. Here he or she much decide which way to continue traveling. One way looks as if it has been traveled many times before and is the safer, easier route to continue
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This is a metaphor for a decision that changes everything – once the person has made it he can never go back.
The last verse begins with a repetition of the first line which brings the reader full circle and back to the extended metaphor. One of the key words here is “sigh.” This is the indication that the speaker’s choice was not as successful as it might have been.
And then the famous line "and that has made all the difference," solidifies the figurative level of this poem by saying that taking the road that the speaker took, making the choice that he made, has changed his life.
The speaker realizes that, despite being faced with two relatively equal options in the moment, he will look back on his decision and assign potentially misguided importance to the fact that he chose one road over the other. In hindsight, he will have chosen “the one less traveled by.” Depending on the “difference” this decision made in the speaker’s life, he will either look back on this decision fondly, patting himself on the beck for making the right decision or he will look back with regret, chiding himself and pining after things that could have
This is a metaphor for a decision that changes everything – once the person has made it he can never go back.
The last verse begins with a repetition of the first line which brings the reader full circle and back to the extended metaphor. One of the key words here is “sigh.” This is the indication that the speaker’s choice was not as successful as it might have been.
And then the famous line "and that has made all the difference," solidifies the figurative level of this poem by saying that taking the road that the speaker took, making the choice that he made, has changed his life.
The speaker realizes that, despite being faced with two relatively equal options in the moment, he will look back on his decision and assign potentially misguided importance to the fact that he chose one road over the other. In hindsight, he will have chosen “the one less traveled by.” Depending on the “difference” this decision made in the speaker’s life, he will either look back on this decision fondly, patting himself on the beck for making the right decision or he will look back with regret, chiding himself and pining after things that could have