Robert Frost was an American poet born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He was famous for his extremely realistic depictions of rural life. Many of his poems were about the themes of time passing, memories, decisions and travel, and/or life and death. Most of his poems were set in rural New England, America. In his poems “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping By Woods” he uses many different poetic devices, such as: metaphors, ironic tone, rhyming stanzas, and repetition to communicate his main themes of time passing, decisions, and memories. Some similar techniques used by Frost in "Stopping By Woods" and "The Road Not Taken" are repetition and metaphor. The continued use of metaphors in both of these poems adds a certain depth to the poems, another level of meaning. For example, “And miles to go before I sleep.” This line is the closing line of the poem "Stopping By Woods", it may seem that the character is talking about the length he has to travel before he can rest or before he reaches his destination, but this last line is repeated. This repetition reinforces Frost's metaphorical connotations of sleep for death, linking it to the main things the person must do before dying. Similarly, metaphors are also used in “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” is the opening line of this poem. It has a special meaning because it alludes to the main meaning of the poem. It may seem like the character is talking about a fork in the road he was traveling on in the fall, but there is an underlying meaning. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” shows that he had a choice about which direction to take in life, or a decision to make. This gives a deeper meaning to Frost's poem so that... middle of paper... digressed from." While 'Stopping By Woods' represents a pause in a journey, or wanting to succumb to darkness or even death, to lie down in the “downy” snow and sleep/die, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep/And miles to go before I sleep,” but knowing he can't, “He won't see me stop here/To watch his woods fill with snow/but I have promises to keep.” While these are still Frost's important concerns, the different season shows the difference between decisions, how they are made and what drives people forward, as well as what it means to take action. these journeys. Both of these poems have many different and interesting messages for readers. Frost expertly uses many different techniques including ironic tone, rhyming stanzas, repetition and metaphors that help him communicate major concerns about the passage of time, about life. , on death and decisions..