Frost_Poem_Analysis

Frost Poem Analysis “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 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, 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. 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 traveled by, And that has made all the difference. One of Frost’s most common subjects is the choice the poet is faced with two roads, two ideas, and two possibilities of action. “The Road Not Taken” deals with the choice between two “roads,” and the results of the choice that the poet makes. It raises the evident question of whether it is better to choose a road in which many travel, or to choose the road less traveled road, speaker, one, first, two, stanza, roads, verse, took, tone, path, life, choice, because, yellow, taken, says, less, just, choose, traveled, out, chose, been, woods, wear, way, third, second, right, reader, poem, even, decision, both