![]() This was a metaphor indicating that decision that an individual makes changes everything and there is no going back. According to Kirszner (47, in line 13 and 15, the poet realizes that they will never be able to return and take the other roads. This abrupt decision is a metaphor for suddenly made decision. In line six, the author had spent a lot of time thinking about the roads but decided to take one road. In line four and five, the description for the road is a metaphor regarding the future. For instance, in line one he speaks about splitting roads in the woods which constitute a metaphor regarding a choice made (Gale, 4). The poet also uses various metaphor regarding roads to pass a specific message to the reader. The decisions made in life, whether wrong or right, have consequences. As such, for every road that one chooses to take, there is an alternative one that is not taken (Spacey). The poet uses roads as symbols to mean the decision that people take in life. Thus, metaphorically, this line brings to attention that sometimes it is difficult to tell the best decision to take in life. It is difficult to distinguish which line is less traveled. In line eleven to twelve, there is imagery because, in this morning, one of the roads has fleshly fallen leaves than the other path. In this sentence, the speaker is refereeing to the decisions that are not commonly made but in its place used nature as a symbol. In line seven and eight, the speaker in the poem thinks that one path is better because fewer people have passed through there (Spacey). Metaphorically, the undergrowth may be used to represent the phase of the poet’s unclear future. In like five the poet describes thick woods in that the roads are disappearing in the undergrowth. ![]() At this moment, he is starting to grow old and thus making various decisions. ![]() He uses falling leaves probably as a symbol showing the fall of his life. The poet uses the symbol of nature by describing woods and how they look like during autumn. Symbolism makes the reader relate the poem to its actual meaning (Spacey). The speaker uses various symbols in the poem. This discussion argues that in the poem “The Road Not Taken”, Frost advances the argument that individuals cannot rewrite their history after they have made a lifetime decision. The choice is the one that made all the difference. However, they conclude that in the future they will tell people that there were two roads heading to into the woods and they decided to take the one less traveled (Gale, 5). Therefore, they doubted if there was a time that they would ever return to the same sport and make other choices. But in the real sense, they knew that one road was likely going to lead to another. Later the individuals decided to return and take the other path that they had not taken. There was no sign that someone had passed through the road before them because there were many leaves on both roads (Sterbenz). The road taken seemed preferable because it was not well-trodden like and the grass was less worn compared to the other road. They spent a long time deliberating and finally took the other road because it was nice just like the other. They wished that they could travel through both roads, but now that it was not possible, they had to take a decision (Carr, 11). In the poem, travelers found two roads that diverged into the woods and started reasoning which road could be the best for them. The poem describes individuals always worried that they would have taken the other route other than the one they currently hold. The poem referred to the tendency of an individual to regret each past decision that they make even the ones that were inconsequential. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is one of the greatest poems that written and was published in 1916 (Gale, 1).
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