Good Poetry Explores Iteresting Ideas in Interesting Ways

responder by stimulating the responder with thoughts. This is executed with the

composer’s use of poetic techniques. Frost presents the responder with issues which

people face in life such as the choices people make, futility of human isolation, the

futility of human endeavour and death, in a way in which the responder can relate too.

He gives us an insight to human behaviour, metaphorically raising thought provoking

ideas by personifying life through inanimate things. Frost’s poetry is an excellent

example of good poetry as he explores these interesting ideas of humanity through the

use of poetic devices of symbolism and imagery.

The work of Robert Frost raises many thought provoking ideas through the clever

use of metaphors. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” the composer deals with the

theme of the choices which people face in life, choices that people face everyday. The

opening lines of the poem introduce the elements of the composers primary metaphor

and symbol, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”. The use of the road suggests life

as a journey along a path that we must take. The “two roads diverged” symboli

relevant to our everyday lives and easy to make sense of. The setting constructed by

took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference.” In addition, the

experience that passed him by. How he has not fill his life with life’s experiences.

imagery furthermore the mood of the poem. This is illustrated by the use of the lines

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