Read these lines from Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken.”

Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

Which idea is conveyed by this part of the extended metaphor that is created throughout the poem?

Both life choices were actually very similar.
Both life choices were actually very different.
Both life choices were actually very overused.
Both life choices were actually very exciting.

Both life choices were actually very similar.

Explanation:

As both the roads are worn out really about the same it suggests that almost same number of people have chosen both the roads, hence there seems to be no essential difference between the two as both are taken by similar number of people.

In terms of the metaphorical meaning the choices seem to be very similar and yet it seems difficult to choose between them because of man's inability to choose between two paths and then not wondering what the other had in store.

The idea that is conveyed by this part of the extended metaphor that is created throughout the poem is: Both life choices were actually very similar.

"The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost that signifies the way life presents us with different choices that require us to determine our fate.

This part of the poem shows that the two choices that the poet was faced with were actually very similar.

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arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

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