That author of the poetry was successful in conveying their meaning to the readers of EFL, which is shown by the results of students’ work through the reader-response approach and stylistic approach. The twenty-one students who analysed the meaning of poetry were represented by student one and other students (S1-S3) in every line of the stanza of the poetry. The study was conducted with twenty-one participants who attended a literary class named Literary Criticism. It also investigates how students’ English proficiency influences their ability to comprehend the poem. The present study examines whether an author of a poem’s intention in writing the poem is successfully conveyed to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) readers. 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. The purpose of the paper is to amplify conflicts regarding choices in human life with the assist of his renowned verse ‘The Road Not Taken.’ In ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the speaker believes that he will not put up with any grief due to his decision in the future. Life is not a bed of roses a man has to fall in indecision regarding choice. The poem is about conflict regarding two possible choices in human life. Critics, scholars, and the general people cite his famous poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ as one of the mesmeric poems. The themes of his poetry are very inspirational and innovative. His poetry begins with delight and ends in wisdom. He is regarded “The Voice of America.” He discusses natural, personal elements and the social piece that are related to the human being very aptly and minutely in his poetry. During his life, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times for his outstanding contribution in poetry. The narrator ironically dismisses as wasted energy the endless dithering over alternatives.Robert Frost is considered as the greatest modern poets in American literature. The poem was intended to good-naturedly poke fun at his friend’s grand Hamlet-like diddling over what was in perspective a trivial choice. Thomas serves as the model for the narrator of the poem, with Frost as the overarching author(ity) finding the hiker fussy and compulsively indecisive. What irritated Frost, however, was Thomas’s habit of lingering about the paths that laced the woods trying to decide which path to follow. Frost recognized Thomas’s keen ear for the music of language and encouraged him to pursue poetry during meandering walks the two would take about the Gloucestershire countryside. Thomas yearned to be a poet, but he pursued any writing opportunities he could find that would pay, mostly travel essays and book reviews. Although using a poet’s biography to provide historical context for a poem is often risky as it tends to limit the poem’s interpretation, Frost actually designed “The Road Not Taken” as a friendly jibe at a young neighbor named Edward Thomas (1878-1917), whom Frost met in Dymock when he and his wife moved into the cottage next door to Thomas and his family.
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