Imagery
The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is filled with imagery, metaphors, as well as other important figures of speech. Here, we will focus on each of them and present the way in which they help the poet render his though…
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Metaphors
As we have already mentioned, the poem “The Road Not Taken” includes metaphors. The two roads the speaker talks about are not literal roads separat…
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Repetition
In the first stanza, the word “and” is repeated three times. It shows the indecision of the speaker:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And l…
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Comparisons
At one point in the poem, the speaker compares the two roads. Even if he tries to convince himself that one…
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Personification
Although it is not quite as obvious as other figures of speech, there is a personification in the second stanza: “Because it was …
