poem

In the first stanza, the poet showed his position. He was walking in the woods. He saw to roads and he would like to try out both. Therefore,he continued to look down the roads for a long time trying to make his decision about which one to take.
The third stanza continueed with the cogitation about the possible differences between the two roads. He had noticed that the leaves were both fresh fallen on them both and had not been walked on, but then again claims that maybe he would come back and also walk the first one sometime, but he doubted he would be able to, because in life one thing leads to another and time is short.
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
The Road Not Taken tells about life choice. Man's life metaphorically related to a journey filled with twists and turns. One has to consider a lot before making a wise choice. Though the diverged roads seem identical, they actually lead to different directions which symbolize different fates.
Robert Frost was an American poet. He attended Harvard University for two years and left due to ter he and his family sailed to Great Britain, settling in a small town outside of London. When the WWI began, he returned to America in the New Hampshire. There he wrote this poem in 1916.
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
The two roads not only refer to the real roads he takes while walking in the yellow woods. More significantly, it means two different ways of life when one hesitates before the life's crossroad. Different choices will lead to different futures.
In the second stanza, he said that he decided to take the other ath because there seemed to be fewer people walk on it. But when he thought about those two roads, he considered them to be really about the same, not exactly same.
The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB; the rhymes are strict and masculine. The poem mainly described the view he saw after he choose one road instead of another.
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
The fourth stanza repeats the theme:I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
My first thought about this poem was that it was an inspirational poem, seeming to encouraging people to be self-reliant and not following where others have led. Actually, it dose not moralize about choice, it simply says that choice is inevitable but you never know what your choice will mean until you have lived it.
Forst claimed that he wrote this poem about his friend Edward Thomas, with whom he had walked many times in the woods near London . Forst has said that while walking they would come to different paths and after choosing one, Thomas would always felt wondering what they might have missed by not taking the other path.
The peom I choose is The Road Not Taken, written by Robert Frost.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sord be one traveler, long I stood
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.