https://padlet.com/noellmm1964/vpa174jk0ajk en-us 2019-05-02 00:51:37 UTC 2019-05-02 01:00:09 UTC hello@padlet.com noellmm1964 https://padlet.com/noellmm1964/vpa174jk0ajk/wish/356023242 I chose to do my poem on “A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Frost believes that people are confronted with and defined by the choices they make. The main idea of the poem is that the speaker is confronted with this fork in the road and must make a choice as to which road to take. That is where the idea of “A Road Not Taken” comes from, he contemplates his life decisions and the outcome based on that decision. 
Although there are no similes in the poem, there are a handful of other poetic devices. The metaphor is comparing the road to a life choice is a metaphor in itself. The personification, giving human characteristics to inanimate objects is: “it was grassy” and “wanted wear”. The poem has a literal and a figurative meaning. Its tone is therefore reflective and pensive. The poem is told from a first-person point of view. The narrator describes the events that happened to him, using "I" to describe himself. This point of view allows the reader to understand the character's thoughts and actions to the full extent. the narrator is describing the setting for most of the poem. There is also a little bit of auditory (sound) imagery when he sighs. The paths that divide in the forest are portrayed as grassy, fair, and about equally worn. While alliteration doesn't contribute much to the meaning of the poem, there are a couple instances in which alliteration is found. In the second stanza," wanted wear" is an example of alliteration, and in the third, "first for" is another.
 It wasn't exactly clear that the road our speaker took was the one that was less traveled. He said at first that it looked less worn, but then that the two roads were actually about equal. the speaker is telling us about what he's going to say in the future. From where he is now, just looking down the path as far as he can see, he can't tell if the future that it leads him to is going to be good or bad. He just knows that his choice is important, but,  he doesn’t know which choice is the right one. 

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