“The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost
Robert Frost was one of the greatest pastoral poet of America in the 20th century. Robert published his first work in England in 1910. Since 1920, Robert became the most popular poet with four 4 Pulitzer Prize: New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942). In 1960, the U.S Congress had awarded Robert for his recognition in poetry for enriching the American literature as well as the World’s philosophy. Robert’s poems usually reflected the rural life which carried the image of New England, and beyond that is his emotions about life: love, man and nature, the perception of nature and God. Mostly, his poems related to the human’s reaction to the nature. His poems seemed outwardly simple and ancient, sometimes, they could be seen as pessimistic and bitter, but they evoked much …show more content…
The poem “The Road Not Taken” was written in 1916. It was one of the most famous poem of Robert Frost, and was the first poem from Frost’s collection “Mountain Interval”. “The Road Not Taken” was a classic poem which consisted of four stanza. The poem depicted mood struggle of a traveler who was facing two forks of his life. Standing in front of two roads, he could not choose all at the same time but must pick one. Then, he decided to pick the one that less traveled, and he would be back to the other on another day. As the road goes on, it leads to another, and then probably another paths. There is no way that he could return to the starting point. In another word, the decision tacitly decides one’s fate of life, perhaps, each person can see a part of himself in it. Life is always a chain of choices which either right or wrong;
Robert Frost was one of the greatest pastoral poet of America in the 20th century. Robert published his first work in England in 1910. Since 1920, Robert became the most popular poet with four 4 Pulitzer Prize: New Hampshire (1923), Collected Poems (1930), A Further Range (1936) and A Witness Tree (1942). In 1960, the U.S Congress had awarded Robert for his recognition in poetry for enriching the American literature as well as the World’s philosophy. Robert’s poems usually reflected the rural life which carried the image of New England, and beyond that is his emotions about life: love, man and nature, the perception of nature and God. Mostly, his poems related to the human’s reaction to the nature. His poems seemed outwardly simple and ancient, sometimes, they could be seen as pessimistic and bitter, but they evoked much …show more content…
The poem “The Road Not Taken” was written in 1916. It was one of the most famous poem of Robert Frost, and was the first poem from Frost’s collection “Mountain Interval”. “The Road Not Taken” was a classic poem which consisted of four stanza. The poem depicted mood struggle of a traveler who was facing two forks of his life. Standing in front of two roads, he could not choose all at the same time but must pick one. Then, he decided to pick the one that less traveled, and he would be back to the other on another day. As the road goes on, it leads to another, and then probably another paths. There is no way that he could return to the starting point. In another word, the decision tacitly decides one’s fate of life, perhaps, each person can see a part of himself in it. Life is always a chain of choices which either right or wrong;