Good poetry explores interesting ideas in interesting ways as they captivate the responder by stimulating the responder with thoughts. This is executed with the composer's use of poetic techniques. Frost presents the responder with issues which people face in life such as the choices people make, futility of human isolation, the futility of human endeavour and death, in a way in which the responder can relate too. He gives us an insight to human behaviour, metaphorically raising thought provoking ideas by personifying life through inanimate things. Frost's poetry is an excellent example of good poetry as he explores these interesting ideas of humanity through the use of poetic devices of symbolism and imagery.

The work of Robert Frost raises many thought provoking ideas through the clever use of metaphors. In the poem, "The Road Not Taken," the composer deals with the theme of the choices which people face...