The Road Not Taken Do you ever wonder if you have taken the right path that life had to offer? In the poem, The Road not taken, publishes in 1916 by Robert Frost born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California and Due to complications from surgery frost died on January 29,1963. Frost started writing poetry ate the age of fifteen. He chose to write poetry because poetry is the highest art of language. In this poem Frost talks about a person that has to choose between two paths, throughout the poem he is explaining how each path looks, at first he speaks about one path being more approachable and then he speaks about the other being just the same, as he continues to compare the two, he ends up choosing one, eventually he chooses one …show more content…
As the speaker of this poem talks about, for every road or path we take, there is a road or path we do not take. If you go through the wrong road or not, the roads we take can end up making big changes in our lives. But of course, there would always be the other road and we will forever wonder what would’ve been of use if we have chosen that road. For example, lines 13-15 The speaker wants to be able to take both roads, but realizes that the nature of these roads is such that he probably will never be able to come back to this place. This is a metaphor for a decision that changes everything because once you have made it your decision you can never go back. Also lines 4-5 “And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” This description of the road is a metaphor for the future. Just like we can only see a path in the woods for so far, we can only see the consequences of our decisions for a short while into our …show more content…
Like the road, nature in this poem has a lot of meaning for example in line one the poem says that the woods are yellow, so I assume it is in the autumn season therefor the metaphorical significance of this poem taking place in the autumn season could be that the speaker is making a choice when he is beginning to grow old. In lines eleven to twelve Here, I see the autumn imagery continue, and I find out that it's morning. I also see a contradiction of the earlier claim that one path is less worn than the other. Because of that line I assume that the leaves have freshly fallen, perhaps covering which path was more or less traveled by others before. So, metaphorically, this line points out that sometimes there's no way to tell which decision is
“And sorry I could not travel both” (2), the speaker is coming to a decision. In everyone’s life, they must make a decision to follow God or not to follow God. In this poem, the speaker has to make this choice. He tries to look down both roads as far as he can to see the choices that might result from taking either path. “Yet knowing how way leads on to way” (14), he knows that this decision is not temporary. He knows that once he chooses a path, he “doubted if I should ever come back” (15[VR1] ).
Another poem that the title contributes to the overall meaning of the story is “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. The speaker is in the woods considering a fork in the road. Both ways look the same, but he chooses the one and thinks he is going to take the other one another day, which it is unlikely to happen. The title of this poem is a clear statement of its subject since it suggests the two roads and the decision that has to make in order to choose one of them. This is a comparison to decision making in life. People encounter different paths in life, but at the end we end up choosing one but still thinking of the road not taken. We usually ask ourselves what if I took the other road instead.
The speaker says he is “sorry I could not travel both”, meaning that he feels sorrowful about not being able to take both roads. This stanza has a much deeper meaning, more than just not being able to take a path. Although the speaker travels into a yellow wood, the paths represent a very important decision the traveler must make. This is an example of a metaphor where the traveler compares the decision to two paths in a wood. He observes the first choice, said as looking down as far as he could in line four, and tries to see where it will take him in the future. He only stops imaging the consequences of this choice when “it bent in the undergrowth;”(5), or when the future of the choice was no longer
This poem describes the worry of decision-making and the rewards of forging your own path. The subject of the poem is faced with a decision of taking the "safe" route that others have taken before or breaking new ground. He finds that making original and independent choices makes life rewarding. One poetic device is imagery described in the lines, “long I stood/ And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth;” (lines 3-5). The imagery is used to describe his sight of the not literal two paths that he could choose. One form of figurative language used is Metaphors. This poem is attractive because is its very inspirational to me at a time where I am making a lot of important
The ambiguity which dominates the poem seems to be intentional. The only certainty in the poem is that it deals with a solitary traveler who has come to a fork in the road and must choose which way to go.
In the opening stanza, Frost describes coming to a point during a walk along a rural road that diverges into two separate, yet similar paths. The narrator finds that he ...
This sets the tone of the poem to be dark and ambiguous. The reader can assume that the direction the speaker is going will not be pleasant. The speaker is taking a walk through the city streets to visit someone and the “streets that follow are like a tedious argument” (Line 8). The speaker’s
The symbolism for the yellow wood would indicate that it is the beginning of fall, if the woods are a metaphor for the speaker's life. It could mean to describe the two roads as aging or decay. This may possibly be interrupted that the character is middle aged, maybe he is in his forties or fifties. The second line points out his desire to be able to choose both paths. But, in this stage of his life, he could be going through a difficult time in his life right now and he is being forced to decide what to do.
The first stanza introduced the reader to the decision the author would have to make. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" to me signified that the result of his decision would arise from the same origin to which in my own life, I can reflect on. And though he would like to have seen the outcome of both paths, he knew he could only choose one. And to help him decide, he would look down both choices and see only until the road took a bend.
The two roads presented in this poem represent difficult decisions we are faced with in life. He uses the relationship between the paths and real life decisions throughout the whole poem. This is an example of extended metaphor, which is used to help the readers understand the analogy between the two. The man in the poem said: “long I stood” (3), which lets us know the decision was not made instantly. It was hard for the man to make a final judgment.
In the poem, a person is walking along a path in an autumn forest in the early hours of the morning, when he stumbles upon a fork in the road. The speaker wishes that he would be able to travel down both of them, but he has places to go, and he does not have enough time. One is worn out from people walking along it so much, and the other is grassy and barely worn from fewer people walking on it. Although neither of them had been traveled on that day, as the leaves were still fresh on the ground, the speaker was compelled to travel the second or grassier path. The speaker fin...
The poem begins with its primary metaphor, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler, long I stood” (1452). Here the tone of the poem suggests that the speaker faces a difficult choice. He wishes to pursue two conflicting paths while realizing he must choose because traveling both is unrealistic. After evaluating both courses, the poem ends with his reflection that “I took the one less traveled by, /
The main theme of the poem that Frost attempts to convey is how important the decisions that one makes can be, and how they affect one’s future. In lines 2-3, he expresses the emotions of doubt and confusion by saying, “And sorry I could not travel/ And be one traveler, long I stood”, which explains how the speaker contemplated their decision of which road to take. In the closing, line 20 of the poem further reestablishes the theme when it states, “that has made all the difference”, meaning that making the decision of which road to take for themselves is the important key for a successful future. Frost helps to express this theme by using symbolism to portray a road as one’s journey of life. Using symbolism, Frost suggests that the speaker of this poem is taking the harder of the two roads presented before them, because the road the speaker chooses, “leaves no step had trodden black” (12...
This poem is one of many written by Frost in 1916 and it is commonly used in high school writing classes. It has been written about frequently and often analyzed because of the connection people feel to the poem for the reason that everyone has to make life choices. The reading of the poem touches a wide variety of readers because each one can identify with the writers predicament of having to make a choice, with two different options, as in the poem which road to take either the well-traveled path or as he decides the less journeyed. As an outcome of this choice, the writer states, that his life was profoundly different than it would have been had he taken the other road. The other road the more traveled and seemingly the safer of the two makes the reader seem more fearless to except what the unknown has to offer thus making his own way in the world. In reading further the roads are almost the same both being beautiful and equally passable. The writer tries to explain why things happened the way they did and that is a significant moment in his life. One might pick the road that gets them to w...
The overarching theme throughout the entire poem is that of choices. The concept of “two roads diverged,” or a split in the road, is a metaphor representing a choice which the narrator must make. Being “sorry [he] could not travel both… [being] one traveler” illustrates that, although he wishes he could see the results of both choices, as seen in saying he “looked as far as [he] could to where it bent,” he is but one pers...