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 …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 …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