Which part of the extended metaphor that exists within Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" best represents the idea that the speaker tried his best to predict the outcome of a particular choice? And sorry I could not travel both And looked down one as far as I could Oh, I kept the first for another day! I took the one less traveled by,

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Nelson Wong

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27 July, 14:20

Which part of the extended metaphor that exists within Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" best represents the idea that the speaker tried his best to predict the outcome of a particular choice? And sorry I could not travel both And looked down one as far as I could Oh, I kept the first for another day! I took the one less traveled by,

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Jane Simmons · Answer 1

The part that best represents the idea that the speaker tried his best to predict the outcome of a particular choice is:

"And looked down one as far as I could"

Explanation:

The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is an extended metaphor for the decisions we have to make in life. Different decisions will bring different results which, on their turn, will lead us to new decisions and so on. The roads mentioned by the speaker represent such decisions. When he says he "looked down one [road] as far as I could," he means he tried his best to predict the outcome of that decision so that he could be more certain when choosing. In the end, according to the speaker, no matter what we choose and how happy we are about it, we will always wonder what could have happened if we had chosen the other path.