"The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, is a gorgeous poem that has many twists and turns. There are not many colors represented in the poem, and so examining the two colors mentioned (yellow and black) is a quick way to identify some of the ideas in the poem.
"Yellow" wood could mean a few things. First, yellow could be telling of the season. It may be fall in the poem and leaves are beginning...
"The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, is a gorgeous poem that has many twists and turns. There are not many colors represented in the poem, and so examining the two colors mentioned (yellow and black) is a quick way to identify some of the ideas in the poem.
"Yellow" wood could mean a few things. First, yellow could be telling of the season. It may be fall in the poem and leaves are beginning to turn colors. Yellow could also point to a specific type of plant, and a region that Frost is describing. Birch sometimes yellows, and so Frost could be talking about birch trees.
"Black" describes rotting leaves. In the third stanza, Frost writes "And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black." Leaves that have been stepped on and worked into the ground are black. Frost's narrator claims that both of these trails are equal and that neither has been worn down to being black. This statement will come into conflict with the narrator's final lines, which state the path he chose made all the difference, because in these lines he states the paths are equal.
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