![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to gain some things in life, we must let others go. By having the character in the poem examine the roads ahead of him, Frost is emphasizing that we all try our best to guess what lays ahead for us in every opportunity that we are presented in an attempt to find some control and later comfort over our final decisions. 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 "roads" starts to haunt us. In this second stanza, lines six through eight: the individual in The Road Not Taken finally makes a decision and chooses a road that he thinks he believes is better, because it looked like not many people had walked on it before. However, in lines nine and ten, he is quick to add that the other road looked equally used in comparison to the one he chose, so it really wasn't as less traveled as he was telling himself. This stanza is important because it clarifies the common misunderstanding that one road was less traveled than the other since the character clearly states that both roads were "really about the same". The diction in this stanza portrays the uncertainty of the character as he tries to justify to himself that his decision is the right one for him and much like anyone else, he is clearly trying to realistically weigh the outcomes of both roads. The important idea to note in this stanza is that the character claimed the road he chose was better because it "wanted wear" meaning, that it was tempting him. He felt that the road he chose "wanted" to be walked on by him. ![]()
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