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The road Not Taken - Coggle Diagram
The road Not Taken
Decision making
We go through many circumstances and experience in our lives and one of them is choosing between two or more paths.
When we come to points in our lives where we must make decisions for our next steps based on opportunities presented to us .
We all try our best to guess what lays ahead of us in every opportunity that we are presented in attempt to fight some control and later comfort over our final decisions
The character claimed the road he chose was better because it wanted where meaning, that it was tempting him .
We always choose the path which seems attractive and is of interest to us even if both the parts have the equal potential of getting to wherever it is we are headed
Sometimes in life when we reach a fork we are able to make quick decisions based on what we learned from other peoples experiences. These experiences then leave marks in the choices that we have , these marks then form our bias towards or against the path .
Regret
The character in the road not taken is disappointed that he cannot hold onto and experience the consequences of every opportunity that is presented to him .
Often times in life in order to gain some things we must let others go which makes us disappointed that we could not experience the other path .
We like to take our time in order to make informed decisions so we can justify our choices when the regret of missing out on the other Road starts to haunt us just like the character in the poem
In real life also no matter where we end up and how informed, tempting and satisfying our choices were we will always wonder what ifs and could have beens of the opportunity that we left behind .
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The confusion of mind
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He notices that both choices lay equally in front of him and none of these choices have been trodden black, that is, no one had walked on them . Therefore he finds himself in a dilemma in deciding which road to choose .
When we encounter choices in our lives where we find that the leaves are not “trodden black” by what we learned from the people around us it becomes harder to make a decision between them just like the character in ‘The Road Not Taken’.
Poetic devices
imagery
"Because it was grassy and wanted wear " . This helps us imagine the second path , the path that he chose .
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metaphor
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The poet compares himself to a traveler .,
The undergrowth at the end of one of the roads is the obstacles and challenges / it is also hard to see what the future held for him.
The grass on one of the roads had hardly been stepped on, it means not many people had chosen that kind of life .
symbolism
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To where it bent in the undergrowth: it makes the other path seems a far harder and risky path and a far less ideal or inviting path to choose .
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Critical Analysis
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Background of the poem
The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written by Robert Frost in 1915 .
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He thinks for a long time and decide which road to choose . He also tried to look down both the roads as far as he could .
He was disappointed that he could not travel both the paths and chose to travel the less traveled path because he thought it was grassy and wanted wear .
But then he realized that both the roads were the same but still chose the road he had previously chosen and thought that he would keep the other road for another day though he knew one way leads on to another way .
He then thinks that after ages he will tell this with a sigh that once he found himself in a yellow wood with two paths and he chose the less traveled by road and that has made all the difference in his life .