This tone is also seen in the title of the poem, “The Road Not Travelled”. In stanza 1 of the poem, the persona depicts regret in the fact that he is not able to experience both roads “…sorry I could not travel both”. However, the underlying imagery drawn in the choice of words used by the persona depict a depressing and melancholic tone. This tone is not readily and easily visible to the reader at first. The poem has a uniform tone from the start to the end. Each line has four syllables that are stressed. The rhyme scheme that is employed in the poem is rather masculine and strict. The poem is made up of 4 stanzas, with each stanza containing 5 lines. Yet he makes his decision with the hope that in many years to come, he will look back and say that the road he chose to take, was the road that was less trodden, and that choice changed his life. This is despite the fact that the opportunity to reverse and try the other road may never come. However, in making this decision, he depicts doubt in whether the road he had selected was indeed the right one. Even though both of the roads are similarly worn, and are similarly covered with un-trodden leaves, he chooses one road, convincing himself that he may try the other one on another day. He has to make a choice as to which road to take and which one not to. The persona of the poem is walking on a road and he reaches a fork point on the road, presumably the road of life. However, the theme that seems to stand out is the theme of Choices. The poem has several themes that highlight the persona’s opinion on life. A flashback of the point in time where he had to make the choice, and foreshadow of how the choice he had made would affect him at old age. It is fundamentally both a flash back and foreshadow. It depicts how the persona of the poem is at one point in life faced with two choices on which road or path to take.
The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is based on an account of life.
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