During those times, the choices made are often critical. “yellow woods” represents the struggles people go through their lives. The “diverged roads” symbolizes that, in life there are many choices or decisions we living to, either take one or the other. In a metaphoric signification traveler means a person living because life is a travel. Metaphor has an important role in this poem since it has many of it and it gives the poem a deep meaning. Imagery, in this poem is effective because the ones who has read it, can immediately start thinking about the place. Another part of the setting is when Frost mentions “yellow wood” which clarifies that the scene happens on a sunny day of fall. “bent in the undergrowth” signifies that the roads are curvy and there is point where the view of the traveler gets loose on the horizon. “two roads diverged in a wood” means that the event happens in a quiet forest. Imagery is the most remarkable device in this poem because the narrator stands to describe the site of the occurring.
Robert Frost uses imagery, metaphor, and personification to describe the difficulties facing in making decisions and where choices can lead in life.
The poem is the story of a traveler, who is located into the intersection of two diverged roads and must choose one to continue his way, as he hesitates to take one or other to finally make his choice. “The Road not taken is a poem written in 1916 by Robert Frost and was the first poem of the collection Mountain interval.
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