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Does the situation change the severity of the choices? Robert Frost's poems “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” present the idea of ​​human nature and life as a struggle to decide between two paths and whether it will ultimately be successful or not. In "The Road Not Taken", the narrator has two paths, or two options, and must decide which one to choose despite the difficulty of having both the same opportunities based on the narrator saying "Though as for that pass there/I had them ho worn much the same. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” deals with the narrator being faced with the difficult choice of finding his own peace or confronting and returning to his social obligations. The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" both describe a situation in which a person is in conflict with himself while trying to decide which path to take. However, the situations are very different from each other . "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And I regret that I cannot walk both" describes two opportunities or two choices available to the narrator. It could be a general decision of which bread to choose for a sandwich or which lesson to take. With this, you can always learn from it if you made a mistake and go back. On the other hand, it may be an important decision to choose a job or choose “Then I took the other, just as right” from “The Road Not Taken” and “Watching his woods fill with snow” from “Stop Woods on a Snowy Evening” both show alliteration in the sense that the initial consonant sounds are repeated. On the other hand, "The Road Not Taken" uses symbolism where the two roads represent two choices, and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" applies the metaphor when it says "He shakes his bells / To ask if there 'is some mistake', which compares the ringing of bells to the speaker asking if there is any mistake In addition to this, the poem also uses symbolism in which beauty and peace are represented in the form of woods Apart this one, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” uses hyperbole to exaggerate and somewhat emphasize the gravity of the decision when the narrator says “Watching his woods fill with snow” because he probably would have already died from the snow if he waited and because the forest would never be completely covered in snow, is more the exact opposite of a hyperbole where the poem is underexaggerated Woods on a Snowy Evening,” you get this great idea that the narrator will stay in the woods until it's completely