Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

-"The Road Not Taken,"

Robert Frost

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What is the speaker's tone or attitude toward the subject of "choice"?

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Kailee Burns

1 December, 10:24

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

-"The Road Not Taken,"

Robert Frost

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What is the speaker's tone or attitude toward the subject of "choice"?

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Camryn Spencer · Answer 1

The speaker's tone or attitude is unhurried and sad.

Explanation:

The tone of any literary work is the attitude of the speaker towards the subject of the text. The tone can be identified by the attitude that the writer or author chooses to use in his / her words.

The given lines are from Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" where the poet contemplates between two roads he encountered in his walk through the woods. The last stanza of the poem shows him decide on which one to walk on, and regret that he "could not travel both And be one traveler". The tone that he used in these lines about the choice that he made in choosing one road / path over the other shows he is sad and unhurried about his decision.