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Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is a symbolic poem of the complications people must face in the course of their lives. Although it is not difficult to understand the meaning of the poem through its title, it is however hard to interpret what the author means when he describes the roads. Throughout the poem, the two roads appear similar at times and different at others. As the poem unfolds itself, the reader becomes aware of the the use of metaphors, diction, verb tenses, and title.
One Critic John Ogilvie states that "The two roads that ‘diverged in a yellow wood' represent a critical choice between two ways of life. The poet takes ‘the one less traveled by,'the lonelier road, which, we can presume, leads deeper into the wood.... The dark woods, though they hold a salutary privacy, impose a stern isolation, an isolation endured not without cost"(226). Frost first uses metaphor to show that the speaker's choice impact his life. Metaphor is "an imaginative comparison between......

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