Question

oxymoron in the poem the road not taken​

Answer 1

Answer:

If the paradoxical utterance conjoins two terms that in ordinary usage are contraries, it is called an oxymoron. An example is, Alfred Lord Tennyson's "O Death in life, the days that are no more." The oxymoron was a familiar type of Petrarchan conceit in Elizabethan love poetry, in phrases like "pleasing pains", "I burn and freeze" "loving hate".

Explanation:

Here, in the poem by Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" the oxymoron is the phrase, "less travelled". It is because, the word "travelled" means where people often roam and wander. But the "less" in front of the word, "travelled" makes up an oxymoron.