"The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
             Robert Frost has a lot of very obvious similarities between "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", but when looking deeper some of the similarities have slight differences.
             In both poems Robert Frost gives each speaker a choice to make and both are somewhat similar. In "The Road Not Taken" the speaker has a choice of which road to take. When Frost says "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," he is talking about two paths that the speaker comes across in the woods. (Line 1) The speaker has to decide which path will be the most beneficial to him or her. However in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the speaker has to make his choice of whether to stop and watch the snow or not. Through out the poem the speaker contemplates the pros and cons of stopping to watch the snow or not. The choices that each speaker has to make can even be broken down more to see how they are similar.
             One example of how these two poems are similar is that they both use the setting of each one as a crucial part of the choice that each of the speakers have to make. The speaker in "The Road Not Taken" tries to use the woods to learn about the two paths that he or she has to choose from. The speaker talks about how the first path seemed maybe like it had been used more than the other, but it was unclear as to where it lead to because it bent into the undergrowth. The speaker in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" also uses the woods to help decide what is the best choice to make. The woods are used to tell how beautiful the snow is while it is falling. This is shown when Frost says, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep." (13) The woods catch the eye of the speaker and influence his decision to stop and watch the snow fall. The woods helped both spe
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