Thematic analysis: The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
This is a wonderful poem with many different themes and ideas. One of the biggest themes is not being afraid to take a chance. Some of the other themes include, not following the crowd, trying new things, and standing for something. This poem stated that the author took the one (road) less traveled by, and that has made all the differenceħ so the author is telling the reader that we too should not be afraid to take another path. The Road Not Taken is a twenty-line poem written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABAAB. This poem starts with the author walking through the woods. He comes to a fork in the path and is torn by which path to take'does he take the path that is traveled by everybody, or the one rarely traveled upon? He decides to take the road less traveled by. By taking this path he changes his life in some way unknown to the reader. We get the idea that the poem starts out in the fall, Two roads diverged in a yellow woodħ (5). The season fall represents the year coming to an end, and everything is dying. When the author refers to fall, might he be referring to death in this case? Might this poem be referring to a religious point of view? Co
This line is a metaphor in which Frost uses woods to represent life. A mother and wife who is being abused has the choice to stay in the abusive relationship or to get out to safety. More than likely, we would have a mixture of emotions. " The leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one had yet to pass by on this road. If she stays, her kids are in a situation that could easily lead to them being abused. Then one notices how insistent is the speaker on admitting, at the time of his choice, that the two roads were in appearance "really about the same," that they "equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black," and that choosing one rather than the other was a matter of impulse, impossible to speak about any more clearly than to say that the road taken had "perhaps the better claim. After reading The Road Not Taken,ħ the reader can determine two literary elements, tone and setting. One of Frost's commonest subjects is the choice the poet is faced with two roads, two ideas, two possibilities of action. He looks down both as far as he can, and makes his decision from that. Yet he remains proud of his decision and he recognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way and he did and live his life the way in which he lived. The two paths represent the options man has to choose from. Again, would we be better off this way? I would say no. The road which leads them to what they believe to be happiness. "Frost presents man's limitation to explore life's different possibilities. For a self to be reliant, decisive, nonconformist, there must already be an autonomous self out of which to propel decision.
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