The speaker is confronted with the fork in the road and must make a choice.
Robert Frost presents a theme about choices and how a person is defined by said choices. (Deen) Themes bring depth and consistency to any form of writing and themes make it easier for the reader to follow. The theme is the underlying message of what the character ultimately realizes. For example: (A) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, (B) And sorry I could not travel both, (A) And be one traveler, long I stood, (A) And looked down one as far as I could, (B) To where it bent in the undergrowth. The rhyme of a poem could be described as a pattern of rhyming sounds, while the rhyme scheme is the recurrence of similar-sounding words at the end of a line. Rhyme schemes almost make up the form of a poem and in this case the scheme is ABAAB. (Rizzoli) The Road Not Taken is a simple-looking poem that consists of four stanzas of five lines. A poem’s form is basically how it looks and sounds. Form can be one of the toughest elements to identify when doing an analysis.
Frost mastered the idea of ambiguity since he never indicates whether the choice the speaker made was the right one or not. Life always presents us with choices, but when making a choice it is more than that, the choice becomes a decision. (Rizzoli) One should make the decision swiftly and most importantly, with confidence. When making choices it is often impossible to see where a life-altering decision will lead. The Road Not Taken dramatizes the conflict between choosing which road to travel and which to leave behind. In this poem, Frost presents a speaker who has an internal conflict on which of the two roads he or she should take.
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