Robert Frost was a professor, a American poet and a four time Pulitzer prize winner who is responsible for many popular works including “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, After Apple-Picking”, and “The Road Not Taken”. Frost is known for publishing many books made up of collections of poems and one of his most well-known works “The Road Not Taken”, is one of Frost’s most familiar poems. In the poem, Robert Frost looks at the choices one has in life, how one decides which choices are better, and what are the consequences of the decisions being made.
The Road Not Taken was first published in 1916 as one of Frost’s first poem in his collection Mountain Interval. The poem consists of four stanzas with five lines each. The Road Not Taken begins with two roads which symbolizes choice with Frost starting his first stanza off as “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”. As Frost continues on within his stanza, he talks about a lonely traveler looking down two roads uncertain on which way to go. The Road Not Taken relates to a journey and in life everyone stumbles upon many challenges, and there are points where we have to let fate take the lead.
Robert Frost is significantly known for his intelligent descriptions and representations about life illustrated in his work. As Frost continues on into the next few stanzas, he tells of the traveler choosing the road “less traveled”. Both roads are equally rugged and covered with leaves but the traveler describes his choice as the road “less traveled”. The traveler tells himself that he will explore one road first and explore the other road later, but he knows he most likely will not be able to do so. The traveler chooses the second of the two roads but still reflects about his decisions later. The lone traveler thinks not only about the right way to choose at the crossroads, but also about the right path in life. Readers may compare this as a problem in life and having to choose between two choices to attempt and resolve the issue. The roads in the poem represent change or transformation in life. This is why the choice of which way to go is so important to the traveler. Even though the traveler chose the grassier road, he still feels an opportunity was lost because he made that choice. The narrator states that “He will keep the first for another day” and “he doubts he will ever come back”, which has a sense of regret and despair. He also says: (at the end of stanza four) “I took the road less traveled by and made much difference”. Readers have to really analyze this last little piece and think about if …show more content…
The roads are considered to represent the traveler’s life decisions. When one first reads the poem, a common first instinct is to think that the traveler just needs to pick a path to take and move on; but the poem has a much broader meaning hidden. The fact Robert Frost chose to use this symbol to depict the message helps readers have a clear idea of what not only the lonely traveler is going through, but also Mr. Frost. Although this poem has been analyzed numerous times, many people misinterpret wrong and miss the big
The Road Not Taken was first published in 1916 as one of Frost’s first poem in his collection Mountain Interval. The poem consists of four stanzas with five lines each. The Road Not Taken begins with two roads which symbolizes choice with Frost starting his first stanza off as “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”. As Frost continues on within his stanza, he talks about a lonely traveler looking down two roads uncertain on which way to go. The Road Not Taken relates to a journey and in life everyone stumbles upon many challenges, and there are points where we have to let fate take the lead.
Robert Frost is significantly known for his intelligent descriptions and representations about life illustrated in his work. As Frost continues on into the next few stanzas, he tells of the traveler choosing the road “less traveled”. Both roads are equally rugged and covered with leaves but the traveler describes his choice as the road “less traveled”. The traveler tells himself that he will explore one road first and explore the other road later, but he knows he most likely will not be able to do so. The traveler chooses the second of the two roads but still reflects about his decisions later. The lone traveler thinks not only about the right way to choose at the crossroads, but also about the right path in life. Readers may compare this as a problem in life and having to choose between two choices to attempt and resolve the issue. The roads in the poem represent change or transformation in life. This is why the choice of which way to go is so important to the traveler. Even though the traveler chose the grassier road, he still feels an opportunity was lost because he made that choice. The narrator states that “He will keep the first for another day” and “he doubts he will ever come back”, which has a sense of regret and despair. He also says: (at the end of stanza four) “I took the road less traveled by and made much difference”. Readers have to really analyze this last little piece and think about if …show more content…
The roads are considered to represent the traveler’s life decisions. When one first reads the poem, a common first instinct is to think that the traveler just needs to pick a path to take and move on; but the poem has a much broader meaning hidden. The fact Robert Frost chose to use this symbol to depict the message helps readers have a clear idea of what not only the lonely traveler is going through, but also Mr. Frost. Although this poem has been analyzed numerous times, many people misinterpret wrong and miss the big