Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken" - Discuss Flashcards

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note

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  • first person pov
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Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is about

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not looking back

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in line 15 of “The Road Not Taken,” why does Frost say that he doubted if he “should ever come back”?

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he knows “how way leads on to way”

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the following phrase from line 3 of Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is an example of
“long I stood”

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inverted syntax

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in line 16 of his poem “The Road Not Taken,” why does Frost say “I shall be telling this with a sigh”?

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Frost has misgivings about the road he picked

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what is frost saying in lines 16-20 of his poem “the road not taken”?

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no matter which road we choose, it makes all the difference

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