THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Robert Frost
 SUMMARY
o This poem is about choices. Through this poem,
the poet tries to tell us that, in life, no matter
what option we choose, we should accept our
decision and we should not regret about it later.
o The poem starts with the author standing on a
road which diverges into two. He stays and
thinks on which one he should take. Then he
takes the road that he feels was less travelled,
but in fact, both the roads where equally
travelled. So he concludes that the road doesn’t
really matter, but the choice does, as the path we
have chosen decides our future.
 WHAT IS THE RHYME SCHEME?

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, Autumn season
in the forest

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

Thicklyitgrown
To where bush
bent in the undergrowth;
Unseen future

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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,

Not much used

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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.

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 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
Which hasshow
all lines made alldecision-making?
about the difference.
What does the poet mean by these lines?

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1.What did the poet keep aside for another day?
2.What is the theme of the poem?
3.How do you connect the title to your life?
4.Can you name a poem with the similar
background written by the same poet?