Compare and contrast the two roads that the speaker encounters in "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. Use the poem and its poetic devices to support your answer.
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In "The Road Not Taken", the narrator is walking in the forest in late fall and comes to a fork in the road.
Both of the two branches of the road appear superficially similar. There are no signposts to distinguish them. They are both dirt roads covered with recently fallen leaves leading through the woods, and both are infrequently traveled. Both roads are surrounded by thick undergrowth and have not been traveled that day, as the leaves are unbroken and still yellow, rather than bruised and blackened by feet or hooves.
The main difference between the two roads is that one of the two seems slightly overgrown with grass, a sign that it generally was less used, although the distinction is fairly slight, as Frost indicates in the lines:
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same