The Road Not Taken
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The Road Not Taken
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1) is the first line in the poem by Robert Frost. This poem consists of four stanzas and each stanza has five lines. His poem is a reflection of what we do every day and that is making decisions. In this poem, the reader takes us with him as he must make a choice in his life. He looks towards both roads and see that they are equally the same. He chooses one and says he will take the other another day, but doubts it will be possible. The reader continues on to say that in the future he will do this again, but with a different outcome. He will take the road less traveled by.
“Two 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” (1-5). These are the starting sentences of this poem and open up the scene to tell you that it takes place during the fall. The reader says that he stopped at a fork in the road. He tells us that he wished that he could take both roads. Since he couldn’t take both, he stood there trying to make his mind up. He looked down the roads as far as he could in attempt of making his decision easier.
“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” (6-10). The read is now making his decision and is deciding to walk down one of the roads hoping that the one he chooses will better than the other. He said they both were exactly the same; both having the same amount of use. He had chosen this road because the road was grassy and needed to be walked on more.
“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.” (11-15). The reader is still trying to see which road will be better. He says that...
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1) is the first line in the poem by Robert Frost. This poem consists of four stanzas and each stanza has five lines. His poem is a reflection of what we do every day and that is making decisions. In this poem, the reader takes us with him as he must make a choice in his life. He looks towards both roads and see that they are equally the same. He chooses one and says he will take the other another day, but doubts it will be possible. The reader continues on to say that in the future he will do this again, but with a different outcome. He will take the road less traveled by.
“Two 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” (1-5). These are the starting sentences of this poem and open up the scene to tell you that it takes place during the fall. The reader says that he stopped at a fork in the road. He tells us that he wished that he could take both roads. Since he couldn’t take both, he stood there trying to make his mind up. He looked down the roads as far as he could in attempt of making his decision easier.
“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” (6-10). The read is now making his decision and is deciding to walk down one of the roads hoping that the one he chooses will better than the other. He said they both were exactly the same; both having the same amount of use. He had chosen this road because the road was grassy and needed to be walked on more.
“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.” (11-15). The reader is still trying to see which road will be better. He says that...