I have chosen "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost as the topic of this Poetry Analysis Paper. "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of iambic tetrameter and is one of Frost's most popular poems. In "The Road Not Taken", it tells a fabrication of a person who reaches a side road in the forest and must choose which rail to take, each caterpillar track being different from the other. Robert Frost illustrates a difficulties decision point when facing the other path, and it means that will be two different stories by making two choices.
First, the setting or the beginning of the poem is already highly related to the main idea and that is making a choice. This is because the traveler has already chosen one of the paths and writes about the past. If the writer had chosen another path, the poem may not be written in this way or even published. In "The Road Not Taken", "I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence," tells the reader that the writer is telling about the past, and it is using reverse chronology. The writer puts the memory at the first and pushes it back to present at the end of the poem. The purpose of writing "The Road Not Taken” is to emphasize how important of ever choice making. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” tells that the writing has already experienced how making choice would affect the future and that has made “all the difference”. In “The Road Not Taken", it doesn’t tell the story later, it doesn’t tell if the traveler regretted or not. However, Robert Frost wants to tell the reader that think twice before making a decision.
Second, the consonance thesis has connected between the traveler and the reader. In the beginning, Robert Frost only describes a picture of the side road, and it seems to be normal. It said that “TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood”, and “And sorry I could