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“The Road Not Taken” By: Robert Frost. By: Summer Robbins and Jordyn Smith. Publication Information. From the collection of Mountain Interval , a collection of poetry written exclusively by Robert Frost Published in 1916, by Harcourt Brace Custom Books. 2011 Glencoe Textbook.
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“The Road Not Taken” By: Robert Frost By: Summer Robbins and Jordyn Smith
Publication Information • From the collection of Mountain Interval, a collection of poetry written exclusively by Robert Frost • Published in 1916, by Harcourt Brace Custom Books
2011 Glencoe Textbook • This poem should be kept because: • The poem shows tenth grade students the importance of decision-making • It expresses that the readers should work hard and not take the easy way • This poem has many literary devices • It would show students how devices are used in poetic works
Iambic Tetrameter with One Dactyl Foot Ex. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, A And sorry I could not travel both B And be one traveler, long I stoodA And looked down one as far as I could A To where it bent in the undergrowth.” B Scansion Type
Line 9 Line 14 “Though as for that the passing there” “Yet knowing how way leads on to way” Sound Device: Assonance
Line 1 Line 9 “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” “Though as for thatthe passing there” Sound Device: Consonance
Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 “And sorry I could not travel both” “And be one traveler, long I stood” “And looked down one as far as I could” Sound Device: Parallelism
Line 1 Line 8 Line 12 “Two roads diverged in a yellowwood” “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” “In leaves no step had trodden black” Frost uses imagery to appeal to the readers’ since of sight Poetic Device: Imagery
Line 6 “Then took the other, as just as fair” This simile compares the road less taken to the other road, which is the easy way through life. Figurative Language: Simile
Figurative Language: Metaphor • Throughout the whole poem a metaphor is referenced by the poet’s writings. • His poetic work relates the road to the decisions that each person makes throughout his or her lifetime. • Ex. “Two roadsdiverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both”
Conclusion • The Glencoe Textbook Publishing Company should keep this poem because of its many literary devices and its way of appealing to tenth graders. • Keeping this poem will teach sound devices, poetic devices, and figurative language to the students.