Transcript The Road Not Taken Robert Frost

“The Road Not Taken”
By Robert Frost
Publication Information
• From the collection of Mountain
Interval, a collection of poetry
written exclusively by Robert Frost
• Published in 1916, by Harcourt Brace
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– The poem shows the importance of
decision-making
• It expresses that the readers should work
hard and not take the easy way
– This poem has many literary devices
• It would show students how devices are
used in poetic works
Scansion Type
Iambic Tetrameter with One Dactyl Foot
Ex. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
A
And sorry I could not travel both
B
And be one traveler, long I stood
A
And looked down one as far as I could
A
To where it bent in the undergrowth.”
B
Sound Device: Assonance
• Line 9
• “Though as for that the
passing there”
• Line 14
• “Yet knowing how way
leads on to way”
Sound Device: Consonance
• Line 1
• “Two roads diverged in a
yellow wood”
• Line 9
• “Though as for that the
passing there”
Sound Device: Parallelism
• Line 2
• Line 3
• Line 4
• “And sorry I could not
travel both”
• “And be one traveler, long
I stood”
• “And looked down one as
far as I could”
Poetic Device: Imagery
• Line 1
• “Two roads diverged in a yellow
wood”
• Line 8
• “Because it was grassy and
wanted wear”
• “In leaves no step had trodden
• Line 12
black”
– Frost uses imagery to appeal to
the readers’ since of sight
Figurative Language: Simile
• Line 6
• “Then took the other, as
just as fair”
– This simile compares the
road less taken to the other
road, which is the easy way
through life.
Figurative Language: Metaphor
• Throughout the whole poem a metaphor is
referenced by the poet’s writings.
• His poetic work relates the road to the
decisions that each person makes
throughout his or her lifetime.
• Ex. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both”