What Is The Defense For The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken:
A defence for the road that was taken Although the literary devices and word choices used can be misleading as to how the poet feels about the road he chose, the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, is firmly proved to be about his satisfaction of the road that was taken This is proven from very specific and strategically located literary terms and diction that firmly supports this thesis statement. In the first stanza, the poet contemplates which road he’ll take. Lines 3, 4 and 5 state, “And be one traveler, long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth”. He makes his choice after close consideration and utilizes literary devices like, assonance(as per the “O” sound) and rhyme, with the words “stood”, “could” and “undergrowth” at the end, emphasizing his thinking process on making his choice. …show more content…
This means that both roads looked about the same, with the only difference being that one was less traveled than the other. The use of personification highlights an adventurous quality in the poet, since he didn't want to take the road that everybody else took, but the one that was rarely traveled. It also highlights a quality of open mindedness that the poet has. It's the final line in the second stanza, combined with the previous lines, that can make him sound like he’s contradicting himself, by first saying that the other road was just “as fair”, and then saying that one of them had a “better claim” and then saying again “worn them really about the same”. Many people would be confused by this, but what Frost is actually saying is that both paths, visually, looked about the same, with the only difference being one was less traveled, and it only felt like they were both equally traveled, after he went through
A defence for the road that was taken Although the literary devices and word choices used can be misleading as to how the poet feels about the road he chose, the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, is firmly proved to be about his satisfaction of the road that was taken This is proven from very specific and strategically located literary terms and diction that firmly supports this thesis statement. In the first stanza, the poet contemplates which road he’ll take. Lines 3, 4 and 5 state, “And be one traveler, long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth”. He makes his choice after close consideration and utilizes literary devices like, assonance(as per the “O” sound) and rhyme, with the words “stood”, “could” and “undergrowth” at the end, emphasizing his thinking process on making his choice. …show more content…
This means that both roads looked about the same, with the only difference being that one was less traveled than the other. The use of personification highlights an adventurous quality in the poet, since he didn't want to take the road that everybody else took, but the one that was rarely traveled. It also highlights a quality of open mindedness that the poet has. It's the final line in the second stanza, combined with the previous lines, that can make him sound like he’s contradicting himself, by first saying that the other road was just “as fair”, and then saying that one of them had a “better claim” and then saying again “worn them really about the same”. Many people would be confused by this, but what Frost is actually saying is that both paths, visually, looked about the same, with the only difference being one was less traveled, and it only felt like they were both equally traveled, after he went through