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What Is The Mood Of The Road Not Taken

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Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” depicts an individuals dilemma of making a choice and ultimately taking a risk. The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme schemes are ABAAB. The rhymes are strict and masculine however, the tone notably changes on the last line. A masculine rhyme is a rhyme of final stressed syllables. The uses of the masculine rhyme, allowed too create the tone, and mood of the poem. This rhyme made the poem sound serious and the poet was able to make a solid point. Notably the last stanza does not contain a masculine rhyme. During the poem the tone was serious while the speaker was making a choice and once that choice was made it was as if a big relief fell over his shoulders. Frost also changes the tense from past to future, when changing the tenses he develops an anticipating, predictive tone, which allowed the reader to observe the speakers state of mind. By doing this, the poet completely changed the mood and the tone of the poem. Frost was able to achieve this by not making the last line masculine and changing tenses. …show more content…

Personification gives human characteristics to non-living things. In the eighth line “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (8), Frost states that the paths wanted wear, but paths cannot want only humans/animals can want. Thus, this line is personification, which intensifies the mood. It is a positive feeling and the speaker finds the need too choose that path. The poem illustrates an imagery of two roads, which symbolizes the two alternative choices the speaker faces in life. The speaker has to make an ultimatum on what he chooses to do with his life. He can either decide to take the road that most

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