Question

Write down the figures of speech you find in the poem the road not taken from beehive

Answer 1

“The Road Not Taken” is probably by far one of the most misunderstood pieces of American literature and Robert Frost’s most contradictory, yet most true to his own form of works. Frost was a great author for turning his own literature on its’ head, so to speak, and he does it so well in, “The Road Not Taken”.

Let’s take this poem and compare:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

In the poem, Frost tells us that he took the road less traveled. The other was the road not taken, obviously. The big contradiction here is in the last line of the second stanza, the narrator tells us that the two roads were worn the same. So much for less traveled. Yet, Frost makes the assertion that, in the future, this decision will have made “all the difference”, when in fact, he had admitted in the last line of the second stanza, “Had worn them really about the same’.( So how could that have made any difference at all?}

Robert Frost was not one of America’s favorite poets. Approximately half of his readers think of him as the Mark Twain story teller type and the other half think of him think of him as the Dylan Thomas type of writer.

The road not taken refers to the life decision not yet acted upon.


I hope this helps....