The poem is often interpreted as a symbol of encouragement to follow one’s dreams and take control of one’s own life. The two would go on long walks and Thomas was a great inspiration in the production of the poem. The poem was conceived as a consequence of Frost’s stay in London in his early forties where he became acquainted with the writer Edward Thomas who was to later become a dear friend of the poet. The Road not Taken is undisputedly his most popular work. The poet Robert Frost gained much fame since the poem’s publication and is now hailed as one of the greatest poets in American literature. It is one the most frequently quoted poems by orators in motivational talks and is seen as the most common end address in valedictorian speeches. Since its publication in 1916 in the journal ‘Mountain Interval’ the poem has gained widespread popularity. The poem captures the feelings of indecisiveness in the face of decisions and the agony of regrets. It is a portrayal of the state of human mind in the process of making such life altering decisions. Robert Frost’s ‘The Road not Taken’ is a poem about the hard choices we face and the conscious decisions we take in life. Some decisions are simple to make whereas others are inherently difficult and require due deliberation. Some of them are small and trivial like deciding what to have for breakfast, while others such as deciding on a career are huge and potentially life-changing. The pedagogical implication for future research is that authors and readers of the poem both need logical critical thinking as well as skills or abilities to convey and receive the meaning of poetry.The Road not Taken by Robert Frost Introduction: Hence, the readers (students of EFL) could enhance their abilities and comprehension of the poem. Student one and others (S1 up to S3) could find the meaning in every of poetry by analysing either literal words or similes and metaphorical words composed in “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. That author of the poetry was successful in conveying their meaning to the readers of EFL, which is shown by the results of students’ work through the reader-response approach and stylistic approach. The twenty-one students who analysed the meaning of poetry were represented by student one and other students (S1-S3) in every line of the stanza of the poetry. The study was conducted with twenty-one participants who attended a literary class named Literary Criticism. It also investigates how students’ English proficiency influences their ability to comprehend the poem. The present study examines whether an author of a poem’s intention in writing the poem is successfully conveyed to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) readers. In this write up, the value of the game considers the lexical choices in the poem " The Road Not Taken‛ by Robert Frost in the following categories: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, lexical categories such as synonymy, antagonymy, contradiction and their significance or effects in the poem. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). 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. Robert Frost is considered as the greatest modern poets in American literature.
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