By: Robert Frost

1
The Road Not Taken

• By Robert Frost
• Published in 1916 in the collection Mountain
  Interval
• Presented by Alex Durbin and Taylor Gutierrez

2
The Road Not Taken

• This poem should stay in the new text- book
  because it is interesting to readers.
• The Road Not Taken is about making the right
  decisions in life.
• The two paths in The Road Not Taken represent
  choices in life.

3
Rhythm

• 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.

• These lines are iambic tetrameter with
• one dactyl in each line.

4
Rhyme Scheme

• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, A
• And sorry I could not travel both B
• And be one traveler, long I stood A
• And looked down one as far as I could A
• To where it bent in the undergrowth B
• The rhyme scheme of The Road Not Taken is A B A
  A B C D C C D E F E E F G H G G H

5
Alliteration

• In line 8 Robert Frost uses alliteration.
• Because it was grassy and wanted wear
• He stresses the W to appeal to the readers
  ear.

6
Assonance

• In line 16 Robert Frost uses Assonance .
• I shall be telling this with a sigh

7
Imagery

• In the very first line of The Road Not Taken
  there is an example of imagery.
• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
• This refers to the sight sense because you can
  visualize two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

8
Parallelism

• In the second, third, and fourth lines of this
  poem parallelism is displayed.
• And sorry I could not travel both
• And be one traveler, long I stood
• And looked down one as far as I could

9
Consonance

• In line 17 and 18 there is an example of
  consonance.
• Somewhere ages and ages hence.
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- -

10
Metaphor

• This whole poem is a metaphor.
• The forking road represent the decisions a person
  makes in life.

11
The Road Not Taken

• The Road Not Taken should be kept in the new
  publication because it has a wide variety of
  literary elements.
• Rhythm
• Rhyme Scheme
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Imagery
• Parallelism
• Consonance