The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

Life is filled with choices, many lead to different futures, some good, and others bad. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost shows shows evidence in what could happen with people’s life choice in his poem by showing different paths and seeing their outcome . Robert was born in 1874 in San Francisco California, and moved all around the country and world. He gained most inspiration of his poetry from his wife, Elinor Miriam White, who he lived with in New England and the U.K. But when he moved to the U.K he gained more inspiration for other famous poets like, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. His poem “The Road Not Taken” describes a man taking different paths in life, but this character later regretted choosing the
Imagery is when the author adds in very detailed text to give the reader an image in his head. From the detail in the sun rising in the morning, to the detail of the trees and the condition of the road/path. Frost uses imagery to give the reader a detailed image of the road Frost is taking,”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/and sorry I could not travel both/and looked down as for as I could/to where it bent in the undergrowth;”(stanza 1). Frost in this quote is giving the reader an image of the path he is taking, describing the road as a long and bent path, he also describes that he took one of the two paths even though he wanted to go down both. Another example where he uses imagery is the third stanza,” And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trotted black.”(lines 11&12). What Frost is explaining in the two lines is when he had woken up from the morning he saw that the leaves were becoming discolored from no footprint. Why Frost uses imagery in his poem is to describe what he is seeing, to give the reader a reenactment of what he has seen and how he is formulating his decision on which road to take. With Frost’s imagery, he also provided a symbolic meaning to his