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life once we choose an option, we must keep on moving ahead with that option and we
never get a chance to come back and take the other option that we had left earlier.

Stanza 4
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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

sigh: deep breath
hence: here, in the future

He says that in the future, he will take a deep breath and say that once upon a time, he
had reached such a point in life that there were two options for him and he travelled on
that road which had been travelled upon by lesser number of people. That decision of
his decided his future. Similarly, in future, when you grow up, then you will say that once
upon a time, when you were young, you had two options. The choice that you made,
made you what you became of it. This is a very strong message for all the students -
that you should be wise and be careful while making choices out of the options that you
have in your life because your future depends on the choice that you make today.

The Road Not taken- Literary Device

Literary devices used in ‗The road not taken‘

The analysis of literary devices explains the hidden meanings of a literary text or a
poem. The use of literary devices is intended to bring richness and clarity to the text
with different meanings. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is also filled with
important undertones with the following literary devices.

 Metaphor: There are many metaphors in the poem like road, fork in the road and
yellowwoods. The road in the poem is the metaphor of life, while the fork on the
road metaphorically represents the choices we make to determine the course of
our lives. Similarly, yellow woods are the metaphor of making decisions during
the hard times of a person‘s life. These metaphors used in this poem emphasize
the importance of different decisions we make in different situations and their
impacts on our lives.

 Imagery: Imagery is used to make the readers feel things through their five
senses. The poet has used images of the sense of sights such as
leaves, yellowwoods and These images help readers to actually perceive things
they are reading. The image of the road helps readers to visualize the road
providing a navigation route to the traveler.

 Simile: A simile is a device used to compare things with familiar things to let the
readers know it easily. There is one simile used in the second stanza such as ―as
just as fair‖. It shows how the poet has linked the road less taken to the easy way
through life.