Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Literary Devices

Set in the middle of the yellows woods, the poem The Road not taken by Robert Frost, is an extremely powerful poem, which talks about the difficultly of decision making in life. The poem is a story about a the poet, who is at an intersection in the woods with two diverging roads, and is faced with the decision of choosing between the two equally good roads. There the poet is conflicted with decision, as he wants to travel both roads yet must on chose one as he can on only travel on one of the two diverging roads. Knowing that this choice will affect his future paths, the poet chooses a road to travel on while regretting leaving the other for another day, although he knows he may never get back to it.

I found the idea of difficulty of decision
One of the techniques the poem used to achieve it this is imagery, and this can be evidently seen in stanzas 1, 2 and the first half of three, especially in quotes "TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood", "And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth "...it was grassy and wanted ware;". In all the quotes above the poet is describing the yellow woods and such descriptions throughout the poem helped me picture the two roads in the poet's point of view. I was able to visualize the roads in front of the poet to such an extent that I felt as if I were the person who was standing at the diverging roads and facing at decision. The roads/the poet's choice are very significant in the poem as the act as a metaphor between directions in life. This combination of techniques helped created a feeling of indecision and conflict. Everyone will have experienced such feelings sometime in their life and for me it personally brought out the experiences in my life where I faced such conflict and strong indecision. By being able to connect to it on a personal level with the help of the techniques used, I was not only able to understand the poet's journey but also feel