Road Not Taken Diction

What if life had multiple paths people could take or people could choose from? What is life on a less traveled path, Or a path never traveled? Well in the Short poem “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost he’s here to tell you what it’s like in a life of this;He does these things by using Diction, Metaphorical Language, and Form to tell us what it’s like on the road less traveled.

Frost starts off the second stanza with “Then took the other, as just as fair”(6). Frost’s diction in this first line represents and stands for how he made the decision he did take the other path with the words that “as just as fair”. These words represent that each path has a fair and equal meaning to him. Since most people in life have to choose what they want to do in their future or go on a certain “Path” they often choose the choose between the pro’s and con’s between the paths. So with the words “Just as fair”, it shows how he looked at the pro’s and con’s of each path and decided that each of

Narrative poems can consist of many key points, one of them being that it’s suppose to tell a story throughout the poem. One example of how he tells us is:”And be one traveler, long I stood”(3). This is how he starts the beginning of the poem telling of how he had to choose between two paths that were very different. This continues throughout the poem, as one of the ending lines is:”I will be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence:”(17-18). These lines tell of how he will be telling about his adventure to future people, possibly family or just randoms. The point he is trying to make here is that it was a very interesting adventure on the path less traveled by people. Using these lines tells of a very imagineros picture in your head of how he went from a young guy picking an odd path to an old guy sitting in a chair telling his grandchildren about