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The Road Not Taken

The poem describes a traveler coming to a fork in the road in a yellow wood. He stands for a long time, contemplating which path to take as both paths seem equally fair. He ultimately chooses the second, less traveled path because it seems more grassy and worn. Though he doubts if he will ever return, he believes this choice will make all the difference. In the future, he expects to recount this decision with a sigh, unsure if he made the right choice in taking the road less traveled.

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The Road Not Taken

The poem describes a traveler coming to a fork in the road in a yellow wood. He stands for a long time, contemplating which path to take as both paths seem equally fair. He ultimately chooses the second, less traveled path because it seems more grassy and worn. Though he doubts if he will ever return, he believes this choice will make all the difference. In the future, he expects to recount this decision with a sigh, unsure if he made the right choice in taking the road less traveled.

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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

- ROBERT FROST
ABOUT THE POET
Robert Lee Frost (March 26,
1874 – January 29, 1963) was an
American poet. His work was
initially published in England
before it was published in
America. Frost was honoured
frequently during his lifetime
and is the only poet to receive
four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry .
On July 22, 1961, Frost was
named Poet Laureate of
Vermont . Frost was nominated
for the Nobel Prize in
Literature 31 times.
Poem’s Title

• ‘The Road’ is the symbol of the choice


made by us in life. Many times we regret
the choice we make but what is done once
cannot be undone.
• The word ‘road’ not only means ‘way’ , it
also means ‘journey’ or a ‘stage of journey’.
Here ‘road’ does not signify any ordinary
road, but functions a metaphor of a vital
decision in our life.
SUMMARY

• In the poem - ‘The Road Not Taken’, the road


symbolizes our life. The poet says that the path that
we don’t choose in our life is ‘the road not taken’. He
describes his feelings about that choice that he had
left in the past. The path which we have chosen,
decides our future, our destination. The important
message that the poet wants to give is that the
choice that we make has an impact on our future and
if we make a wrong choice, we regret it but cannot go
back on it. So, we must be wise while making choices.
First Stanza
Two roads diverged
in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could
not travel both
And be one
traveller, long I
stood
And looked down one
as far as I could
To where it bent in
the undergrowth;
Gist of Stanza 1
The poet was standing at a junction where
the road forked into two. It was a forest
full of yellow leaves due to the autumn
season. As the poet could not travel both
the roads, he stood there for a long time,
deciding which road to take. He was in
dilemma. He looked down at one road as far
as he could and to where it bent and
disappeared in the wild bushes.
Second Stanza
Then took the
other, as just as
fair
And having perhaps
the better claim,
Because it was
grassy and wanted
wear;
Though as for that,
the passing there
Had worn them
really about the
same,
Gist of Stanza 2

After viewing both the roads, the poet decided


to take the second road because it was grassy
and had not been travelled by many. The poet
was adventurous and wanted to travel on the
road which had not worn off. Moreover, he felt
that it had better claim. As far as the passing
of traveller was concerned, both the roads had
worn in the same manner.
Stanza 3
And both that morning
equally lay
In leaves no step had
trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for
another day!
Yet knowing how way
leads on to way,
I doubted if I should
ever come back.
Gist of Stanza 3

Both the road lay in the same condition in front of


the poet that morning. No leaf had been crushed
black as no one had passed from both the roads
that morning and both of them were covered with
leaves. The poet decided to go back on the first
road some other road although he knew that one
way leads to another and had the doubts if he
would ever be able to travel on the first road.
Stanza 4
I shall be telling this with
a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages
hence:
Two roads diverged in a
wood, and I-
I took the one less
travelled by,
And that has made all the
difference.
Stanza 4

The poet was not sure about the success of his choice. He
thought he might regret about his decision of travelling on
the second road and he might tell about it with a sigh. It’s
very difficult to pass the judgement at the spur of
moment. After many years perhaps he will be telling with a
sigh about his choice. Two roads diverged in the wood and
he selected the one which was less travelled by and his
choice has made all the difference.
By..
Aurko Ghoshal 9c

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