| In the only line that contains strictly , the more regular rhythm supports the idea of a turning towards an acceptance of a kind of reality: "Though as for that the passing there … " In the final line, the way the rhyme and rhythm work together is significantly different, and catches the reader off guard | Robert Frost wrote this poem for his friend Edward Thomas, as a joke |
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| No actual date is provided for the event | Frost himself wrote the poem as a joke for his friend , who was often indecisive about which route to take when the two went walking |
Not only is the destination a vacation but the journey is too.
| After Frost returned to New Hampshire in 1915, he sent Thomas an advance copy of "The Road Not Taken" | The neatness of how the sentence structure suddenly converges with the line structure this sentence is exactly one line echoes the sudden, clean division that choice creates |
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| Oh, I kept the first for another day! The variation of its rhythm gives naturalness, a feeling of thought occurring spontaneously, affecting the reader's sense of expectation | The road in the poem is the of life, while the fork on the road metaphorically represents the choices we make to determine the course of our lives |
Some, now paved over, are used as highways, remnants of a culture that has long since vanished and been supplanted by another.
21| The image of the road helps readers to visualize the road providing a navigation route to the traveler | A friend of Richie's dies suddenly after being captured during a diamond heist |
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| Their first meeting is said to have taken place 100 years prior to the reunion | He finds two roads at a point where he has to choose one and must abide by his choice |
 Thus far, the entire poem has been one sentence.