The poem describes a traveler coming to a fork in the road represented by two diverging paths in a yellow wood, with the traveler contemplating which path to take and ultimately choosing the less traveled path. The poem uses descriptive language and metaphor to depict the traveler's internal decision making process between the two paths. It explores themes of choices and the uncertainty of whether opportunities can be revisited through the traveler's reflection on keeping one path for another day and doubting if they will return.
The poem describes a traveler coming to a fork in the road represented by two diverging paths in a yellow wood, with the traveler contemplating which path to take and ultimately choosing the less traveled path. The poem uses descriptive language and metaphor to depict the traveler's internal decision making process between the two paths. It explores themes of choices and the uncertainty of whether opportunities can be revisited through the traveler's reflection on keeping one path for another day and doubting if they will return.
The poem describes a traveler coming to a fork in the road represented by two diverging paths in a yellow wood, with the traveler contemplating which path to take and ultimately choosing the less traveled path. The poem uses descriptive language and metaphor to depict the traveler's internal decision making process between the two paths. It explores themes of choices and the uncertainty of whether opportunities can be revisited through the traveler's reflection on keeping one path for another day and doubting if they will return.
Directions: Read the literary text below then analyze it by answering the questions that follow.
The Road Not
Taken by Robert Frost
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. Give/answer what is asked in the following items. Write your answer at the back of this paper. Part 1: 1. What is the genre of the text given? 2. What important standards of literature are considered in analyzing the literature? 3. When do you need to draw considerations of the standards of literature? When is not? 4. Knowing these literary standards, values, and genres, how are they helpful in analyzing the text? Part 2: 1. What does each stanza/line mean? 2. What literary devices are present in it?