A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison of two or more different objects without using the words “like” or “as”. Metaphors are commonly used in various types of writings. A poet named Robert Frost used many metaphors within his poems to deliver a deeper message to his audience. In Frost’s poems, “The Road Not Taken,” “After Apple-Picking” and “The Freedom of the Moon,” he uses the numerous objects of nature as metaphors to convey diverse meanings. Within Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” he uses metaphors of the environment around the character to demonstrate the true meaning of their journey. For example, he describes the woods as yellow with two diverged roads that have conclusions the traveler cannot see. Yellow normally represents caution, and the two pathways signify the two decisions. Therefore, the journeyer should carefully come to a major decision, despite not knowing the results, to proceed. Another example includes the traveler taking the grassy and unused road even though the other path shows it has been used many times before. This means they came to the decision to walk their own path instead …show more content…
He talks of a ladder he is climbing up against a tree to pick and collect its apples into a barrel. The ladder represents the path he has been journeying on, the tree represents his life, and the apples represents his accomplishments. There are some apples he did not pick, which metaphorically expresses that there are a few achievements he did not receive in his lifetime. Another example is the man seeing, within his mind, both the good and bad details of those apples. That demonstrates he is viewing the memories of his life successes and failures. Frost’s poem uses those metaphors to display a potentially dying man looking back on his past achievements, successes and