Literary Analysis Of The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

“Two roads diverge in a wood, and I― I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” (p.127, Stanza 4). This is an excerpt of the last stanza to “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Robert Frost is an American poet who is famous for his formal style which is still popular in our American literature classes. The poet’s theme for his poetry are often settled in dark meditations with a taste of modern poetry from his unique language, also his poems portray many of layers of ambiguity and irony that make his poem different from all the other poems. The poem “The Road Not Taken” has the concept of two roads that fork out in to the yellow wood, “The roads diverged in a yellow wood” (p.127, Stanza 1). Later on in the poem,

Caesura are the strong pauses within a line of verse, forms commas, hyphens, and semicolon. In the poem Robert Frost wrote “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both” (p.127, Stanza 1). Another line is “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I― I took the one less traveled by, and has made all the difference” both of these lines represents caesura. How this poetic craft element help emphasize the overall meaning of the poem is by representing the tone in the poem. The pauses helps the reader understand what is happening in the poem, such as understanding how the narrator is feeling towards the diverge roads. This poetic craft element helps represents the true meaning of the question of “what a poem, a poem?” And with that the element of caesura is a perfect example of that.

In conclusion the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost has many poetic craft elements that helps the audience clarify that poem. With the question “What makes a poem, a poem?” Well the elements in Robert’s poems helps answer this question, the poetic elements helps us understand the overall meaning in the poem. Such as the contribution of Robert’s poem. In the poem “The Road Not Taken” the author uses many poetic craft elements that make this poem an actual poem such as using rhymes to emphasize his rhyme scheme, also he uses image, symbols, and