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The Road Not Taken
Style
The poem is a narrative poem
The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABAAB
The amount of stanzas is 4 with 5 lines each
Interpretation
The entire poem is a metaphor to the history of the poem. Robert Frost never actually took the road less traveled by, this is his story of how he is looking back on the situation wishing he had.
The first time reading through this poem we thought the message the author is trying to convey is that you don't need to follow others / society and that sometimes you need to step away from the easy road and do your own thing
After consulting with others opinions on this poem we found another message. It's that you shouldn't look back on something you did and live your whole life regretting on it.
regretful, self-disappointment tone
tells us that from then on he will take the road less traveled by, not that he already did
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
personification
And both that morning equally lay
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.
personification
regretful, doubtful tone
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
an image of one of the paths
gives us a location
apologetic tone
Two roads diverge in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
History of the poem
The poem is written by Robert Frost around the year 1915. Robert and his good friend Thomas spent years in England together, where they came up with the idea of the poem while going on frequent walks together. Later, once they had returned home Robert wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken" as a way of mocking the decisions that Thomas made on their walks.