Figurative Language In Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

For many Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” is thought to be a poem that symbolically challenges individuals to take the road less traveled in life. However, Frost’s work can also be taken in a more literal sense as many have often noticed that there was not a road less traveled but both roads were equally worn. No matter what one sees as the motivation for this thought provoking poem, the use of figurative language such as metaphors, imagery, symbolism, is a reflective depiction of the internal struggle one faces when confronted with choices, and the realization that these choices profoundly affect our lives. Frost 's “The Road Not Taken, consists of metaphors, describing the path as life’s journey and the fork as the many choices that lie ahead. The opening line of the poem depicts life as a path, “diverging.” “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” (Lines 1-2). This metaphor presents the path as a expedition through life, and the writer wishes he could travel both paths, but is forces to choose one path. The diverging path represents the choices one most confront in life 's journey, and the reader, just as the traveler, in the poem is faced with the realization that there are two choices and the importance of the decision. Also, what needs to be taken into account is that a lot of decisions are made without knowing the

"The Road Not Taken", is a work full of metaphors, imagery and symbolism that together describe the theme of a confrontation with a choice and the importance of the decision made. It is a symbolic look at life 's path and the decisions that are made that can alter the future. When confronted with this life changing choices it reminds the believer that scripture makes it clear that one should not have to stress the outcome of the future as it says, “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6