He knows that he can only choose one or the other. The word “sorry” in the “and sorry I could not travel both” (2) has a strong meaning of regret it shows that the persona was regretful before he even made the choice. The diction in the poem show that people’s choice will impact their lives.ĭiction is the poet’s choice of words to create meaning based on the denotation and connotation of any given word. The regret for not taking the other road shows that the decision of the persona has made impacts to his life.
If he has the chance to make the decision again he will make a different one. This action shows that he is regretful of the choice he made before. The persona looks back at the scene when he was making the choice in front of the diverged roads and wondered about the road not taken. This title directly shows that the persona is regretful of his decision of not taking the other road. The title of this poem is “The Road Not Taken”. So, the future tense in this poem shows that the persona will look back to the decision he made because of the regret. The meaning of word “sigh” suggests the regret of the persona. They are two possibilities for looking back: proud or regretful of something. The transition from past tense to future tense means that the persona will look back to the decision he made. The poem uses past tense in almost of the whole poem but in “I shall be telling this with a sigh” (16), it is future tense. The road makes his life different from all the rest. The line has implied meaning from the road chosen. At the end of the poem, the persona says “and that has made all the difference” (20). In “two roads diverge in a yellow wood” (1), the persona has to choose between two roads to reach his destination. The metaphor is to show that the choice has an impact to his life. Metaphor is an imaginative comparison between two literally unlike things. The figurative language used in the poem is metaphor. The function of assonance is frequently the same as end rhyme or alliteration, to give a sense of continuity. travel (line 3) / And… traveler / And… as… as (line 4), and sigh / diverged… I (stanza 4). In the poem, there are assonances as follows: wood / could / stood / looked (stanza 1), And…. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. The alliteration produces an echo effect by linking words through their sounds. There are some alliteration in the poem such as then took the (6), wanted wear (8), that the (9), first for (13), telling this (16), and took the (19).
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Alliteration refers to the repetition of consonant in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,A And sorry I could not travel bothB And be one traveler, long I stoodA And looked down one as far as I couldA To where it bent in the undergrowth B The poem has many alliteration.
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