Analysis Of �The Road Not Taken� By Robert Frost

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hard to make important decisions because you are always going to wonder what might have happened if you had chosen the other path. The speaker has no way of knowing what awaits him at either of his destinations, but he still must choose between the two paths.
The most common literary technique in �The Road Not Taken� is symbolism. The whole poem is very symbolic because the speaker reflects on the decision that he has to make, and the consequences of that decision. The choice that he has to make is not just which road should he walk down, because that would be insignificant. The choice he has to make will affect the rest of his life and determine his own fate. It shows us how each and every choice we make effects our lives in ways that we will never know. Once you make a decision to do something, there is no turning back and you will never know what might have happened if�
In the first stanza of the poem the speaker must choose between two paths that diverge into a yellow dark ...

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both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.� The leaves were all covering the ground, and since the time that they fell no person had walked on that road. This means that each time a person has to make a choice it is new to them, and they tend to feel that no one else has been there either. In this poem imagery suggests that the speaker must choose between the unknown, two paths that have unfamiliar destinations.
�Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim.� What made it have the better claim is that it was grassy and didn�t have many tracks of people walking on it. The path with fewer tracks was not meant for everyone because ...

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