![]() Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices. A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. It seeks to account for the interpretative effects of a text through close study of its linguistic detail, such as syntactic structuring, semantic deviation, deixis, modality, etc. Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics. The purpose of the paper is to amplify conflicts regarding choices in human life with the assist of his renowned verse ‘The Road Not Taken.’ In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the speaker believes that he will not put up with any grief due to his decision in the future. Life is not a bed of roses a man has to fall in indecision regarding choice. The poem is about conflict regarding two possible choices in human life. Critics, scholars, and the general people cite his famous poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ as one of the mesmeric poems. The themes of his poetry are very inspirational and innovative. His poetry begins with delight and ends in wisdom. He is regarded “The Voice of America.” He discusses natural, personal elements and the social piece that are related to the human being very aptly and minutely in his poetry. During his life, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times for his outstanding contribution in poetry. With the help of all these hidden clues and hints, we can be certain that the theme of this story is to choose an option that we feel right, no matter what society or your own brain says about it.Robert Frost is considered as the greatest modern poets in American literature. At the end of the poem, we see the author taking the path that looks less used-which, in turn, is a metaphor that implies that the narrator took a unique path-and although he still seems unsure of it, he at least is proud of where it will take him. The imagery in the poem happens to take place in a fork in a forest which happens to be a metaphor that symbolizes choices in life. The tone in the poem is definitely uncertain because the narrator is faced with difficult choices and no proper answer. The structure might seem pretty normal at the first but the rhyme scheme-which happens to be unorganized-leads to the tone of uncertainty. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is indeed a unique poem with a lot of hidden features. There is however no figurative language here. The imagery is also in the future where the author talks about the choices they made. But that might be the only similarity since the tone here shifts to relaxing and dreamy since the narrator imagines the future. The last stanza like all the others has the same structure. There is one metaphor in the stanzas when Robert Frost says that "morning equally lay" to symbolize that both the paths were nearly the same. It has the same structure, word choice and tone, and imagery. The third stanzas are not much different than the second one. This personification in turn also creates a metaphor, as the author implies that the grass that is "worn" is the common choice, and the grass that not "worn-in" is a unique one. There is personification in the stanza when the grass is given the emotion of feeling "worn" or used. Now the author describes that the narrator is inside one of the paths-which looks less used from before and exploring it. The Imagery is built upon the imagery of the first paragraph. ![]() For the remaining lines, the tone is back to being unsure and uncertain. Although the word choice is still informal, the tone has changed into surety only for the first three lines. Like mentioned earlier, the second stanzas is similar to the first stanzas in structure. The second one is the personification and occurs when Robert Frost made undergrowths "bend" to block the narrator's sight. There are two uses of figurative language in this paragraph, the first of which is a metaphor which occurred in the first line where Robert Frost mentions "yellow wood" to symbolize a sign, which is most likely yellow. This paragraph also sets up the Imagery-for the entire poem-which is a fork leading two different ways in what might be a dense forest. Words and phrases such as "undergrowth" and "Two roads" help form the tone of uncertainty. The word choice in this paragraph is informal and the tone is likely uncertain. To re-iterate, all the structure in the first paragraph is repeated throughout the poem. ![]() They all have a set meter and the Rhyme Scheme is ABAAB. The poem has 4 stanzas, with 5 lines in each. First, it sets up the stage for the Structure. The first stanza reveals a lot about the poem. ![]()
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