Research Paper On The Road Not Taken

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Mrs. Brown
English II
11-9-15
Poetry Research Project: Robert Frost
A four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry, American Robert Frost depicted Realistic New England life through language and situations familiar to the common man (Bio). Frost had to make some hard choices in his life for example; Frost attended Dartmouth College for several months, returning home to help put his family working a slew of unfulfilling jobs (Bio). 1897, Frost attended Harvard University but had to drop out after two years due to health concerns and needed to get a job to support his now pregnant wife and child (Bio). Frost uses these choices in life in his poem “The Road Not Taken”. This poem talks about choices, whether to take the road less traveled or the more used but equally worn path. Robert Frost uses imagery, irony, and alternation in “The Road Not Taken” to explain some of the difficult choices in life. Robert Frost

The rhyme scheme is ABAAB; the rhymes are strict and masculine, with the notable exception the of the last line. There are four stressed syllables per line, varying on an iambic tetrameter base (sparknotes). The repetition of vowel sounds and consonant sounds throughout a line in the poem help give the poem a rhythm that it can be read to (weebly). Last but not least Robert Frost uses attitude in “The Road Not Taken” for example “a fork in the road” . the tone of attitude of the poem changes as the traveler considers his choice of roads. The first attitude is when he reveals the speaker to somewhat indecisive (shmoop). He comes across a fork in the road and wishes to travel both but decides that would be unpractical. So he selects the “one less traveled by”. He says he will be telling this with a sigh, which seems to imply a tone of regret, but by the end of the poem, the two tones turn to a feeling of inevitability and acceptance