TPCASTT
Title
My predictions about the title, "The Road Not Taken", are that the poem will be about a decision someone made or someone looking back to the decisions that they made in the past, like the cliche of which road to take. My prediction is that the title has a denotative meaning.
Connotation/Literary Devices
Line 1: the connotative meaning for the two roads could be choices, such as choices the speaker made in the past, or choices the speaker is faced with now.
Lines 10-11: both of the paths were equally trodden, so there was not a "road less traveled", although later on the speaker claims that he took it (line 19).
Line 15: when the speaker says "I doubt if I will ever come back", he infers that he will most likely never be able to turn back and make the decision of which path to take ever again.
Line 16: The speaker's tone is weary, yet reminiscent of the decision he made long ago.
Point of view: the speaker, who traveled through the yellow wood
Connotation: The fork in the road symbolizes the choices one must make throughout their life, and how they will affect them.
Attitude
Speaker: Robert Frost (the poet himself)
Tone: Wearily reminiscent
Since the speaker and the author are the same, their tone and attitude towards the poem match.
Shift
Line 12: after this shift in the poem, the speaker goes from making the decision of which path or choice to take to thinking about how the decision will affect him.
The author's intent was to make the reader ponder on their own decisions, and how they will affect their lives, as well as the decisions the author himself made.
Title
My prediction of the title's meaning was correct.
Theme
The moral of the poem is that one's actions can deeply affect their success as a person, as Robert Frost's choice to become a poet affected his life.
Theme: One's choices forge the path for the rest of their life.
My predictions about the title, "The Road Not Taken", are that the poem will be about a decision someone made or someone looking back to the decisions that they made in the past, like the cliche of which road to take. My prediction is that the title has a denotative meaning.
Connotation/Literary Devices
Line 1: the connotative meaning for the two roads could be choices, such as choices the speaker made in the past, or choices the speaker is faced with now.
Lines 10-11: both of the paths were equally trodden, so there was not a "road less traveled", although later on the speaker claims that he took it (line 19).
Line 15: when the speaker says "I doubt if I will ever come back", he infers that he will most likely never be able to turn back and make the decision of which path to take ever again.
Line 16: The speaker's tone is weary, yet reminiscent of the decision he made long ago.
Point of view: the speaker, who traveled through the yellow wood
Connotation: The fork in the road symbolizes the choices one must make throughout their life, and how they will affect them.
Attitude
Speaker: Robert Frost (the poet himself)
Tone: Wearily reminiscent
Since the speaker and the author are the same, their tone and attitude towards the poem match.
Shift
Line 12: after this shift in the poem, the speaker goes from making the decision of which path or choice to take to thinking about how the decision will affect him.
The author's intent was to make the reader ponder on their own decisions, and how they will affect their lives, as well as the decisions the author himself made.
Title
My prediction of the title's meaning was correct.
Theme
The moral of the poem is that one's actions can deeply affect their success as a person, as Robert Frost's choice to become a poet affected his life.
Theme: One's choices forge the path for the rest of their life.