Robert_Frost___A_Different_Outlook

Robert Frost : A Different Outlook Robert Frost : A Different Outlook This has got to be among the best-known, most-often-misunderstood poems on the planet. It seems as if "The Road Not Taken" gets memorized without really being read. This is a type of poem that needs to be read with accuracy, not imagination. If you read the poem and really try to understand the meaning of each word, its plain to see what the poem is talking about. It seems to me that most people believe the poem is about how a man took a path in life that not many people take, and has had a great life because of it. When you break it down and read the lines separately, its easy to understand what the poem is really about - how you will always wonder what could have been. In line 9, of the two roads the poem reads "the passing there / Had worn them really about the same." In fact, both roads "that morning lay / In leaves no step had trodden black." Meaning: Neither of the roads is less traveled by. I do not believe the poem is about how the man chose the right path; instead I frost, robert, poem, about, road, life, really, path, wonder, roads, one, decisions, always, woods, traveled, read, less, choice, believe, ages, two, taken, somewhere, sigh, seems, say, same, make, leaves, know, happened, each, decision, character, both, back