The Road Not Taken Analysis

Mountain Interval1916Two roads diverged 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;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,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.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.

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| Posted on 2008-10-08 | by a guest

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Most assume this poem has an inspirational message; that one should take the road less travelled by, or not following the norm, however, the poem is meant to be a mockery of the idea that people always see two choices in front of them, and although there isn't much of a difference between the choices, one always sees some sort of dramatic difference between the two choices in their ownperspective. Then when they make the decision they see as the best, they look back and think of it as a life changing move, when in reality, choosing the other road probably wouldn't have made too much of a decision.

| Posted on 2008-10-08 | by a guest

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i love this poem...i think it is a fork in the road of his his and he has to make a choice...i think he regrets the choice he made

| Posted on 2008-10-04 | by a guest

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I guess we really won't know the true meaning.Maybe it was for his friend or maybe he used it to hide the truth. My first impression was that he was talking about two lovers.He does use personification,the road wanted wear?(roads don't think) And both that moarning equally lay.oh, i kept the first for another day!Did we forger that line?Maybe the road he didnt take had been taken by alot of other men.He took the one less traveled by maybe this is the one that wanted weaar? I dont know thats what i thought.

| Posted on 2008-10-01 | by a guest

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I think this poem was FREAKING AMAZING!!!!
THIS POEM UTTERLY CHANGED MY LIFE AND I SINCERELY JUST LOVE ROBERT FROST! I WOULD TOTALLY HAVE SEX WITH HIM/
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING GUYS!

| Posted on 2008-09-23 | by a guest

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I think two roads diverged in a yellow wood is about robert frosts life and all the tough times he has been thorugh and wich path he has taken.

| Posted on 2008-09-07 | by a guest

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I love this poem. It teaches everyone to be special and have their own way. Choices in life might be hard sometimes, but they will get better. OMG love this awesome poem.

| Posted on 2008-08-11 | by a guest

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I love this poem. It teaches everyone to be special and have their own way. Choices in life might be hard sometimes, but they will get better. OMG love this awesome poem.

| Posted on 2008-08-11 | by a guest

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I love this poem. It teaches everyone to be special and have their own way. Choices in life might be hard sometimes, but they will get better. OMG love this awesome poem.

| Posted on 2008-08-11 | by a guest

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Thank you guys for posting this outrageous hint about the poem and it really helped me on my assignment (400 words essay) and i am counting after i write 1 sentence
lol.anyways thanks a lot.

| Posted on 2008-07-22 | by a guest

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Thank you guys for posting this outrageous hint about the poem and it really helped me on my assignment (400 words essay) and i am counting after i write 1 sentence
lol.anyways thanks a lot.

| Posted on 2008-07-22 | by a guest

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hey people...this poem is very nice...i liked read it..very understandind and helping for us in life and for the decishions we tak in our whole god life..i will say thank u to frost for rithing a nice poem..thank you n write this shame poem in hindi olso...thanku..namastee

| Posted on 2008-07-06 | by a guest

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I found this very useful, i hope someone else does too.
The poem describes the act of making choices within one’s life is solely responsible for the outcomes one produces. Frost speaks of the decisions one encounters as they journey through life and how at several points, one would come to a “fork” where the individual would have to decide which road (or decision) is best for them. At such points, Frost goes further to describe how one would contemplate whether or not the individual would like to take the road that has been traveled more or embark upon their own path. Because life is full of forks and divisions, it is not possible that one can choose one way and decide to turn back for the other. In essence that a life-changing decision is “life-changing,” it is all the same impossible to turn back and take the other road.
“The Road Not Taken” possesses a solemn tone.
The poem speaks very much about the decisions one must make should they continue through their life. Frost explains how “two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” and the speaker “taking the other” after “long [he] stood” has “made all the difference.” He acknowledges that the choices he has made and will make will greatly affect his future; therefore it is not a matter to be taken lightly, thus explaining his solemnity in the matter. The speaker realizes that both roads were “equally laying” “just as fair,” which makes them “really about the same.” The fact that there was not a significant difference between the two roads makes it difficult for the speaker to choose which road he would like to take. He understands that the choice is critical and does not treat life like a game, to be jokingly selected. He therefore “looked down as far as [he] could to where it bent in the undergrowth” to figuratively examine how one decision would affect his life. It is reasonable how the speaker would adopt such a solemnity while making such a decision as he would hope to make the best decision and not have any regrets. In the way that a fork in a road symbolizes a decision and a journey symbolizes a quest, the speaker is seeking to continue his life and gain self-knowledge. To the speaker, his pursuit is important, and that supports his taking on of a solemn tone.
Though it is elaborate, the poem’s diction contributes to highly reflective imagery. The act of speaking in past tense for the majority of the poems develops the symbol of passing time. Frost also selects several words such as “yellow wood,” “long,” “just as fair,” “sigh[ing],” “ages and ages” portray that the speaker has been on the earth for quite a bit of time. A “yellow wood” symbolizes autumn: a time when trees loose their leaves, and life gets ready to die away for winter. It is typically accepted that autumn is a time of aging, and one is approaching winter: the time of death. With both the roads having been worn so much that they were “just as fair,” it must have taken rather some time for both to be worn to the same level. Frost goes further to explain how each road was like the other in the morning. “Morning,” when looked upon literally would define a new day, and from that one would connect figuratively that morning signifies a new beginning and thus a passing of time. As time passes, one would grow tired, hence the “sigh.” In the final verse, the speaker refers to the future where he “shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence.” This is after many years of careful contemplation.
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| Posted on 2008-06-04 | by a guest

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This poem is mainly about sex, as you can see from frost's style, if you read each every other line, then you will see a different pattern. and if you still dont, you should interperate this as a poem of life that many people have failed in of trying to persue their goals but end up regreting in their own decision, other road always seem to make the difference because we are already used to the road we picked. it is hard to lay back once you go too far.

| Posted on 2008-05-29 | by a guest

.: MAZE :.

After reading this poem i thought that frost was lost in a maze trying to overcome the obstacles of the tree walls in the way of trying to find his way out. He could either go forward or backwards trying to escape the inner child of himself

| Posted on 2008-05-26 | by a guest

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The last stanza,is a reflection upon his past experiences and can be interprated as:
Regret- hangs over the traveller like a heavy cloud, about to burst
Realization- in the end of his life he will be having regrets about having never gone back an travelt the road not taken.
Proud - of his decision and regcognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him who he has become, what he did, and his life.
and the last sentence ".that had made all the diference"
This may indicate: That Frost may have been trying to achieeve a universal understanding. In other words there is no: x moral
It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem.
I found these informations on the internet, and thought thatthey may be usefull for those who are writting an essay about it.
Good luck.

| Posted on 2008-05-22 | by a guest

.: It does really matter :.

After reading much analysis about this poem, I decided to stick to my own interpretation. I look it in a positive sense and use as a form of encouragement.
It does not really matter to me anymore -- be it positive or negative. As long as my interpretation makes me feel good, I think that is a worthwhile poem.

| Posted on 2008-04-30 | by a guest

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I think that the poem is not about using the road less traveled by because he says that both paths are really about the same. I think that the poem is saying that whatever path you choose, it is up to the person to make it a good life or a bad one.

| Posted on 2008-04-28 | by a guest

.: TRUE MEANING!!! :.

"Anyone who thinks that they know the true reason Robert Frost wrote this poem is very ill-minded"???
that is a rather unthoughtfull statement
and the TRUE meaning of this poem may very well possibly be what the people in these comments are talking about, though Frost is dead, doesn't mean its impossible to know what the poem is really about
maybe, theres a possibility that Frost stated what the poem was about before he died??
Oh, thats right, HE DID!
but the meaning of Frost's words describing this poems shouldn't be over analyzed like this poem is
Frost said "One stanza of 'The Road Not Taken' was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years later, and I couldn't bear not to finish it. I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way."
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 23 Aug. 1953
Clearly, based upon this quote from Frost himself, the inspiration from this poem came from a friend of his who obssessed about decisions he made, and paths he DIDN'T take in life. The title of the poem shouldn't be ignored either. It is called "The Road Not Taken" and the poem is literally about the path that the traveler chose not to take
this is a clear cut, obvious meaning, the poem is about a traveler, who came to a fork, and chose a path, and that traveler is wondering about the path he didn't take, and is obsessing over the thought that perhaps the other path would have been better, but he will never know
Frosts inspiration from this poem came directly from his friend that went off to war, but thats not entirely what the poem is about, just where the main idea came from, as Frost only wrote one stanza of this poem while in England and thinking about his friend.
he then went on to finish the poem for the sake of finishing it, and sharing it with the rest of the world. The poem truly has multiple meanings and is rather complex. It urges us to consider the impact of our decisions and it identifies with us and Frost's friend, the feeling of looking back at our decisions and wondering how things could be different today. It urges us to be individuals when we make decisions as well.
Theres alot more to this poem but this is what I have so far, im in the middle of writing a paper on Frost and this is what I have on this poem so far.

| Posted on 2008-04-27 | by a guest

.: TRUE MEANING!!! :.

"Anyone who thinks that they know the true reason Robert Frost wrote this poem is very ill-minded"???
that is a rather unthoughtfull statement
and the TRUE meaning of this poem may very well possibly be what the people in these comments are talking about, though Frost is dead, doesn't mean its impossible to know what the poem is really about
maybe, theres a possibility that Frost stated what the poem was about before he died??
Oh, thats right, HE DID!
but the meaning of Frost's words describing this poems shouldn't be over analyzed like this poem is
Frost said "One stanza of 'The Road Not Taken' was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years later, and I couldn't bear not to finish it. I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way."
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 23 Aug. 1953
Clearly, based upon this quote from Frost himself, the inspiration from this poem came from a friend of his who obssessed about decisions he made, and paths he DIDN'T take in life. The title of the poem shouldn't be ignored either. It is called "The Road Not Taken" and the poem is literally about the path that the traveler chose not to take
this is a clear cut, obvious meaning, the poem is about a traveler, who came to a fork, and chose a path, and that traveler is wondering about the path he didn't take, and is obsessing over the thought that perhaps the other path would have been better, but he will never know
Frosts inspiration from this poem came directly from his friend that went off to war, but thats not entirely what the poem is about, just where the main idea came from, as Frost only wrote one stanza of this poem while in England and thinking about his friend.
he then went on to finish the poem for the sake of finishing it, and sharing it with the rest of the world. The poem truly has multiple meanings and is rather complex. It urges us to consider the impact of our decisions and it identifies with us and Frost's friend, the feeling of looking back at our decisions and wondering how things could be different today. It urges us to be individuals when we make decisions as well.
Theres alot more to this poem but this is what I have so far, im in the middle of writing a paper on Frost and this is what I have on this poem so far.

| Posted on 2008-04-27 | by a guest

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| Posted on 2008-04-22 | by a guest

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| Posted on 2008-04-22 | by a guest

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| Posted on 2008-04-22 | by a guest

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this poem inspires me to make my own unique decisions in life and to find my own road to the future
instead of following in someone's footsteps, i am free to be independent and different

| Posted on 2008-04-19 | by a guest

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This poem is about roads u take in life known as decisions. What will you do when you get to that road how will you react to your change.

| Posted on 2008-04-17 | by a guest

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This poem is about roads u take in life known as decisions. What will you do when you get to that road how will you react to your change.

| Posted on 2008-04-17 | by a guest

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Anyone who thinks that they know the true reason Robert Frost wrote this poem is very ill-minded. The only person who truly knows why the poem was written is dead.

| Posted on 2008-04-16 | by a guest

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I will tell you that after 6 weeks of research on this particular poem, that the true reason Frost wrote this about one of his friends who went to war, and if his friend took either road he would be sorry he didn't take the other. This poem has very little to do with Frost himself.

| Posted on 2008-04-09 | by a guest

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the poem is also about changing perspective as Robert frost journeys through the path he realizes how much they are the same

| Posted on 2008-04-08 | by a guest

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Personally, i think the theme of this poem is that you should always be true to yourself and make your own decisions, not have other poeple make them for you. You should take the path that you think is the best one, just follow your heart. Not take the path that everybody else took. Be a leader not a follower, BE x

| Posted on 2008-04-06 | by a guest

.: ANALYSIS! :.

So far all i got from all your comments... of what the poem is representing. i thought this sight was about ANALYSIS!

| Posted on 2008-03-30 | by a guest

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we had to disect this poem in english and it means:
that there were two roads that went into the woods. One had a path and the other was mossy. Frost took the mossy path because it was the road most people never took. This poem is about his life because he went to Dartmouth and dropped out because he didn't like the way they made him write poetry. The he went to arvard and also dropped out. most people never dropped out of college because it was a big thing and really hard to get into and he dropped out. Normally nobody would do that. and Frost did something most people wouldn't meaning he took the path less traveled by.
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| Posted on 2008-03-25 | by a guest

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we had to disect this poem in english and it means:
that there were two roads that went into the woods. One had a path and the other was mossy. Frost took the mossy path because it was the road most people never took. This poem is about his life because he went to Dartmouth and dropped out because he didn't like the way they made him write poetry. The he went to arvard and also dropped out. most people never dropped out of college because it was a big thing and really hard to get into and he dropped out. Normally nobody would do that. and Frost did something most people wouldn't meaning he took the path less traveled by.
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| Posted on 2008-03-25 | by a guest

.: the road not taken :.

it simply means there are many roads in life to take, and you will have to choose between the many paths to take in life.

| Posted on 2008-03-25 | by a guest

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that is really deep and very true, you helped me with my poem review on this poem. Thanks a whole lot!

| Posted on 2008-03-18 | by a guest

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Could this poem refer to chosing between two lovers and how his life would be different if he had chosen the other?

| Posted on 2008-02-25 | by a guest

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Could this poem refer to choosing between two lovers and how his life would be different if he had chosen the other?

| Posted on 2008-02-25 | by a guest

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the road not taken is a great poem to read and i love this poem. i also love the deeper meaning behind this poem!

| Posted on 2008-02-14 | by a guest

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my teacher says this poem has really deep meaning and made us write ESSAYS!
i mean i understand this is poem is like meaningful but i had to do the homework OVER THE WEEKEND!!!!ok!!!
like AHHHH!MY TEACHER...Oh AND HE HATE ME!!!! YAPPP
HEY TEACHER...THANKS FOR THE D*** HW!=]]

| Posted on 2008-02-12 | by a guest

.: The title :.

The title of the poem is "the road NOT taken" many people just assume it must be the road NOT taken by the people that robert frost says he took, but what if this whole poem is based on how he REGRETS taking the road he took and yerns for "the road NOT taken" by himself? just a thought...

| Posted on 2008-02-06 | by a guest