Theme of the Road Not Taken

In life decisions have to be made. Some be regular every twenty-four hours choices that have little impact on your life. Others however, can change your life forever. In The Road non Taken Robert Frost uses unfathomed, rhetorical language, diction to illustrate the importance of every day decisions and the regret you array when you think about those decisions later in life. Once the first stanza is read the first example of gruelling is revealed. The rhyme scheme in this verse form is ABAAB. The words that rhyme in the first stanza are timberland/stood/could (lines 1, 3, and 4) and both/undergrowth (lines 2 and 5).These rhymes give the poem a sense of connectivity and flow. They also emphasize real ideas in the poem such as the fact that both paths were equal in every focus and none had been traveled before as he states in stanza two. Also alliteration is present in the poem. In line eight, alliteration makes the poem flow more poetically. Because it was grassy and wanted wear (line 8). The wa sound repeats itself in the last two words of the line. These examples of sound make a poem that should sound uneven flow like a poem should. Figurative language in a poem can intensify any meaning greatly.For example Frost uses personification and imagery to create pictures in our head of what the forest looks like and gives record to inanimate objects. For example, when Frost says Because it was grassy and wanted wear (line 8) in line eight he uses personification. A road cannot want anything but it does give the road the personality that it has not been traveled ever before. Also he gives imagery when he says the forest is a scandalmongering wood (line 1) which gives the impression that the leaves have fallen off the trees and it is autumn time in the forest.Autumn in literature represents the coming of old age and wisdom but the quotation still has a aspect of fulfillment. So in the poem the character could be nearing the end of his journey with a feeli ng of wealth and fulfillment but a lowest decision might determine his destiny. Finally diction in this poem creates the theme and gives the poem the regretful and remorseful feeling we get at the end. In the final stanza he says that I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence. (lines 16 and17).Now, when someone tells a story with a sigh it means that they might regret the story they are about to tell. The character probably second guesses himself on the decision he made years ago and wonders what he would be like if he had chosen the other path. Even as he makes the choice (as he knows he has to or else he will not get anywhere) he knows that whatever path he chooses he will never know what lies on the other side. This is why he always tells his story with a sigh. Decisions in life are hard to make and sometimes can be overwhelming.Frost uses sound, figurative language, and diction to communicate what decisions can lead to later in life. The poem explains t hat in life at that place is not a right or wrong path. There are just many paths that are equal and have different outcomes. This leads to people second guessing themselves later in life and inquire about the unknowable path that they did not take. This means that no matter what path you choose something is issue to happen and you have to accept it. Therefore, in life it doesnt matter if you make the right or wrong decisions just seize the day.