Write an essay in about 300 words ,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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The major theme in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is based on choices and life decisions that may or may not contain risks involved. The speaker in the poem is travelling and comes upon a cross road or a fork-in-the-road, whom now faces the tough task of choosing whether to follow the path that has a greater or smaller risk. As the narrator's tone becomes more dark and mysterious, the applied tension increases and emphasises the important decision to be made. This is also shown at the last stanza where words such as "sorry" and "sigh" make the tone of poem somewhat gloomy and reflects the amount of risk that could occupy in the decision made. Meticulous examination of both paths provides insight on the different and similar characteristics involved, where the use of symbolic imagery is evident. "And having perhaps... grassy and wanted wear..."The vivid imagery and symbolism of the path as "wanted wear" highlights how decisions can create a sense of curiosity and adventure through the risk that may involve in taking the path. Through that risk, leads to the continual difficulty of making life choices in the future and the agony of ambivalence that arises in the decisions made.