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The Road Not Taken – Frost
Critical Analysis.

"The Road Not Taken", written by Robert Lee Frost, is a poem that has four five-line stanzas with only two end rhymes in each stanza (abaab). Several kinds of literary devices can be found in the poem. One of the literary devices employed is antithesis.

The first stanza of the poem describes a traveller comes to a split in a road through a "yellow wood" and wishes he could "travel both" routes, but at the same time he realizes that the thought of travelling both roads is unreasonable and therefore rejects it. In the second stanza, the traveller says the other road has "perhaps the better claim/because it was grassy and wanted wear," implying that this road is "less travelled by." And then he contradicts his own judgment by saying that "Though as for that the passing there/had worn them really about the same." In the third stanza, he comes up with the idea of saving the first, (perhaps) more travelled route for another day, but......

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Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)