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The persona is neither happy nor sad, though we can see some little element of regret in the last two lines.
The poet has also employed symbolism to portray the message of decision making and the due consideration. In stanza one the lines "And looked down one as far as I could / to where it bent in the undergrowth." This looking that the poet is talking about is the due consideration and the diligence that one gives to the choices that one is yet to make. The lines symbolize the keen thought and consideration that the persona gave to life in the future, a future that he peered to as far as he could till where the future was "…bent in the undergrowth."
The flow of the poem has as well been strengthened by the use of rhymes throughout the poem. The rhyming of words like wood-stood, both-growth, fair-wear, claim-same, lay-day, black-back, sigh-by, hence-difference has helped the poem achieve the smooth pace of a person walking through the woods. It also gives the poem the musicality and makes it easy to flow and read.
Generally "The Road Not Taken" is a poem that has transcended the time and ages to make itself relevant even in the today's society about individualism...
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The Road Not Taken
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 marked 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.
Robert Frost.
References
Poem Hunter (2012). The Road Not Taken. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
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