Poetry analysis: Robert Frost's "The Road

Not Taken"
Answer the following questions about the poem:
1. What human traits are suggested by the first stanza of the poem?

-Dilemma, Guilt
2. What is the theme of the poem?

-Choice
3. In what way does the poem suggest that Frost was a non-
conformist?

-In the last stanza “I took the one less travelled by, And that has
made all the difference”.
4. Do you think the line, "Yet knowing how way leads on to way" is
fatalistic in tone? Explain your answer.

-Yes, it is. He is doubtful whether he is able to return to the “two

roads diverged in a yellow wood”, That also means one route
leads to another and another and so on. In the end, one could be
left so far from the original choice that the chance of starting over
becomes nearly impossible.