📚 WALT (We Are Learning To)

Identify and explain poetic devices in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Success Criteria:

🌲 The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever be back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

🔍 Identifying Poetic Devices

The roads are a metaphor for ________________

wood, both, stood, could, undergrowth

The rhyme scheme is: _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

a) ________________________________

b) ________________________________

c) ________________________________

💭 Understanding the Poem

The speaker in the poem is...

The main message of the poem is about...

The phrase "less travelled by" suggests...

👥 Discussion Activity

a) Have you ever had to make a difficult choice? What was it?

b) Do you think the speaker is happy with his choice? Find evidence from the poem.

c) What does "And that has made all the difference" mean?

🎨 Creative Response

⭐ Extension Activities (Challenge)

Consider: word choice, pace, imagery

📝 Reflection

One thing I learned about poetry today:

One question I still have: