In one of his poems, Robert Frost posed the problem we all face, often many times: making a choice that, for one reason or another, precludes making a different one. In this write up, the value of the game considers the lexical choices in the poem " The Road Not Taken‛ by Robert Frost in the following categories: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, lexical categories such as synonymy, antagonymy, contradiction and their significance or effects in the poem. Poets, particularly modern ones, have successfully freed themselves from constraints of what is so called ‚poetic language (Sharma, 2009: 31). Each register has its own characteristics style with certain lexical and grammatical choices.
A piece of work cannot be properly understood without a thorough knowledge of the language, which is its medium of expression. It seeks to account for the interpretative effects of a text through close study of its linguistic detail, such as syntactic structuring, semantic deviation, deixis, modality, etc. Stylistics is the study of style of language in literature. This paper attempts to analyse the Lexical Choices in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken poem from the perspectives of stylistics.
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