Monday, 5 January 2009

Poem-The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken" seems to illustrate that once one takes a certain road, there's no turning back, although one might change later on, they still can not change the past. It seems that choice is very important, and is a thing to be considered. The attractions of the poem is its archetypal dilemma. One that we instantly recognize because each of us encounters it innumerable times.
The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines and the rhyme scheme is ABAAB.
Identical forks, in particular, symbolize for us the nexus of free will and fate: We are free to choose, but we do not really know beforehand what we are choosing between.

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