Tone Of The Road Not Taken

In life, we have to make many hard decisions and there are times when we just have to trust ourselves to make the right ones. The hardest part is learning to live with the choices we’ve made and not regret them. Robert Frost is greatly known for portraying life lessons and realistic descriptions through his poetry. In his well-known poem “The Road Not Taken” he writes about an experience that all humans go through at some point in their lives. The poet helps us to better understand this message by his use of tone and literary devices throughout the poem.
“The Road Not Taken” is about a traveler who comes upon a fork in the road. There are two paths, and he has to decide which one he should take. However, when you read between the lines of this
The title of the poem shows the importance not of the path taken, but of the path not taken. The traveler expresses sorrow that he “[…] could not travel both" (2) and he stands for a long time being indecisive. He understands that there is really no way for him to know which path is better. He notices that they are both worn about the same. From that he tries to be optimistic by keeping "[…] the first for another day!" (13). He plans to come back to this place and take the other path, but then states “I doubted if I should ever come back” (15). The line that really expresses the speaker’s feelings is “I shall be telling this with a sigh” (16). The fact that he is sighing is proof that he may be regretting his
Robert Frost is exceptional at keeping the readers’ attentive by his use of sound devices throughout his poems. The rhythm of his poem “The Road Not Taken” makes us feel like we are walking through the woods with the speaker. We can hear his footsteps in the rhythm and rhyme, with the occasional diversion to look at the nature all around. He uses a structural format of ‘ABAAB’ to help the poem flow, and this makes it easier to be remembered. Every writer wants what they’re saying to stick in the readers’ minds when they leave. Especially Frost, because his poems are teaching great life lessons that we can take and use in our personal lives. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1) is the opening line in this Robert Frost poem. He is very clever with this line, for it is repeated later on in the poem and contains assonance. This is what makes this line so memorable, because the vowel ‘o’ being repeated makes the line flow nicely and the entire line is repeated, almost telling the readers to remember