The Road Not Taken Research Paper

Robert Frost wrote the poem “The Road Not Taken” in 1916 (Hirschberg and Hirschberg 800). There are qualities about Frost’s poems that made them really popular and these qualities “can be seen in ‘The Road Not Taken,’” (Hirschberg and Hirschberg 800). This poem in particular depicts how people must make choices in life and that the choices made affect the rest of their life. Frost uses setting, a variety of images, and certain words to enhance the poem’s theme and to make it easier to understand. “The Road Not Taken” shows how people will journey through life and will have to make choices. Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” explores the theme of choices through its use of setting, imagery, and word choice. In the poem, Frost uses setting to convey his theme. The setting of the poem is a split road in the woods. The traveler is traveling the road when he comes to a division in the road and must make a choice in his journey, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost 800). Frost shows that the roads give the traveler no other option except to choose one of the routes, “And sorry I could not travel both” (Frost 800). The setting helps show how choices may not have an immense difference in appearance that would give one choice a step up over the other, but a choice must be made none the less without knowing what awaits. To Frost, both roads have not been traveled much,

The poem discusses the traveler’s options of which road to take and his thoughts when he looks back on his decision of choosing the one, “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (Frost 800). The choice in the poem is similar to the choices people have to make in life. Sometimes the choices seem significantly similar, but the person still has to choose one. The poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Frost examines the theme of choices by using the literary devices of setting, imagery, and word