"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a remarkable piece of poetry that displays the thoughts of Frost about the world around us and the choices we have to make on our journey of life. To better understand "The Road Not Taken" lets take a closer look into the life of Robert Frost. Frost was born March 36, 1875 in San Francisco, California. His first poem was "My Butterfly" appeared in the New York newspaper The Independence on November 8, 1894. Frost married Elinor Miriam White in 1895, who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death on March 20, 1938. Frost moved in the United States in 1915 where in New England gave frost the subjects of his finest poems. He published "A Boy's Will" in 1913 and "North of Boston" in 1914 which established his reputation. By the 1920's Frost
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Since he was disciplined to think that a man should never look back. Such a course of actions was never taken by Frost, it was a road he had been taught to avoid. So when Robert Frost moved back to the United States in 1915, he carried himself in the manner of Edward Thomas to write "The Road Not Taken". Now that I stated what inspired the creation of "The Road Not Taken", I would like to explain what my understanding of the poem was. My understanding of the poem was that the yellow woods represents the world around us and the two roads diverging represent the people on their journey through life, coming to a time in which they must make a choice or decision. When the traveler looked down one it's represents us examining our options and the traveler took the other, it's us choosing the other path in life thinking it was a "better' choice. When the poem states, "...it was grassy and wanted wear". It displays to me that the traveler thinks few people have taken that path and more should, but the traveler notices the differences between the choices to be very few, if any. Also, when it states, "In leaves no step had trodden
Since he was disciplined to think that a man should never look back. Such a course of actions was never taken by Frost, it was a road he had been taught to avoid. So when Robert Frost moved back to the United States in 1915, he carried himself in the manner of Edward Thomas to write "The Road Not Taken". Now that I stated what inspired the creation of "The Road Not Taken", I would like to explain what my understanding of the poem was. My understanding of the poem was that the yellow woods represents the world around us and the two roads diverging represent the people on their journey through life, coming to a time in which they must make a choice or decision. When the traveler looked down one it's represents us examining our options and the traveler took the other, it's us choosing the other path in life thinking it was a "better' choice. When the poem states, "...it was grassy and wanted wear". It displays to me that the traveler thinks few people have taken that path and more should, but the traveler notices the differences between the choices to be very few, if any. Also, when it states, "In leaves no step had trodden