While Robert Frost was writing “The Road Not Taken”, he put great effort into incorporating symbolism into the poem. There is plenty of symbolism throughout this poem, but the most prominent is when Frost wrote the first line which states, “Two roads diverged in a …show more content…
Frost tended to lean more towards auditory imagery when he wrote about feeling sorry that he could not travel both roads or when the narrator said “I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:” (Frost, 2016, Lines 16-17). Without the detailed imagery within this poem, the reader would not be able to visualize the setting so clearly. Overall, the images Frost intended to set out the scene such as the yellow wood, one traveler, and the undergrowth assist in the unveiling of the story. The narrator also provides some contradictory imagery in line 11 when he states “In leaves no step had trodden black” (Frost, 2016). If both roads have not been previously taken, then the narrator could not have taken the road less