Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” By Bradley Vion

About Robert Frost San Francisco, California March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 Harvard University Elinor Robert Frost goes to England Robert Frost becomes a teacher

Theme One theme of this poem is choices and consequences

Poetic Devices Personification Imagery Metaphor

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost

Works Cited "The Road Not Taken." Poetry for Students. Ed. Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary Ruby. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 194-204. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 30 May 2014 http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=robert+frost&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=robert+frost&sc=8-12&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=AEC2791CF4B030A867E4DB40B807FDEB1B5416C0&selectedIndex=0 http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=robert+frost&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=robert+frost&sc=8-12&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=6F5C300E061D90CBEA6641777B0C5B3A36D0459A&selectedIndex=13 http://poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/