Give a short summary on the poem the road not taken
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Explanation:
this poem tells us about the confusion we have to face in making choices of our life. The poem explains that we should not regret the choice we make and also we should not follow the path which is followed by everyone .We have to decide what we have to do and learn to live.
Answer:
1st stanza:
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;
In this stanza, the poet describes how he was walking along a trail through a forest where in the leaves of all the trees had turned yellow, and how in the course of this walk, he came across a junction where the trail divided into two paths. Being a single and lone traveller, the poet could not possibly travel along both of those paths, and had to choose one path to walk down instead. However, this was not an easy choice for Frost to make. For a long time, he stood at the junction and looked as far as his vision would reach down one of the two paths. His field of vision only allowed the poet to see the length of that path to the point at which it disappeared among a dense growth of shrubs and other plants along its way.
2nd stanza:
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,
In this stanza, the poet describes what he did after looking down one of the two paths at the junction of a forest trail along which he was taking a walk. He says that the other road was as justified a choice as the first one for the poet to walk along, and so he chose the second one. Moreover, this second path was in fact a better choice for him because he could see that it was filled with grass still, unlike the other path that was almost barren. The poet concluded that every person passing through either of the paths must have caused the grass beneath his feet to fade to a similar extent, and therefore, since the second path had more grass on it than the first one, it had been less often chosen by other travellers like him who had been faced with the same choice before his arrival at the junction of the forest trail.
3rd stanza:
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.
In this stanza, the poet says that after all his calculations as to which path was more often taken, he saw that on the same day as he was walking along that forest trail no other traveller had reached that junction, and he was the first to do so. As a result of this, no leaves on either of the paths bore any sign of being blackened by travellers’ footprints. Having chosen to walk along the second path, the poet thought he would walk along the first one some other day in the future. However, this resolution of his could not be made with any certainty. Frost knew that one road leads to another, and another, and another so that he might never have the chance to come to that junction again, and consequently, never be able to walk along the first path that he had just rejected.
4th stanza:
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.
In this stanza, the poet says that having made his choice of taking the second path from the junction in the forest trail, he still cannot rest easy about his decision. He believes that after many years, he will look back on the memory of that walk and think that by choosing the path that less people had been on, he has forever eliminated the first path from his travels. However, the last line of this stanza, and of the poem as a whole, is a bit ambiguous. The poet could also be saying that his choice of the second road has affected his life in a positive light, and perhaps choosing the first one wouldn’t have had such an effect and instead been a bane for him in his life.
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