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The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

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The Road Not Taken Questions on Punctuation

The Road Not Taken

In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," recurring sound and image patterns include the motif of divergence and choice, symbolized by the roads in a yellow wood. The poem uses a consistent rhythm and...

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The Road Not Taken

The colon in the last stanza of "The Road Not Taken" introduces a pause that separates the speaker's present narrative from his imagined future reflection. It serves to transition from the present...

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