The Road Not Taken Tone

There are many choices we make in life and there are points where we must allow fate to lead. Robert Frost is well-known for his faithful descriptions and his representation of the rural life. He uses his work to check out complicated philosophical topics like human and nature experiences. “The Road Not Taken” is an intelligent poem in which Frost determined to characterize his message by using two roads as a symbol of a life decision. To accept this poem, you have to go extensively and read apart from what is written. The author helps us better accept the message by his use of tone and literary devices such as symbolism and metaphor. After reading “The Road Not Taken”, we came to comprehend that life is a consolidation between decisions and fate.

The authors tone in this poem played a considerable role in helping us accept the poem’s theme. Frost’s tone in the poem is both introspective and doubtful, but there is an adjustment towards the end. Throughout the poem, we

As an example, Frost knows the difficulty of making life decisions. He depicts how “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1). The two roads show a difficult decision in life that must be made. The narrator knows the implication the decision will have on his future. Also, Frost explores the strategies people use to comprehend between choices. The narrator “looked down one as far as [he] could / to where it bent in the undergrowth” (4-5). The narrator states how deciding the road less traveled has affected his life and made all the difference. Whether this difference is positive or negative, the choice has been made and is decisive. The metaphor of the road shows the reader how one cannot, essentially, turn back or change the past. By the last line of the poem, the narrator has gone through the decision-making process adopting the metaphor of the road to precisely describe that