Tell a specific incident in your own life that helps you understand the experience of the poet
in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’.
Examples: shifting houses/ schools, situations with friends, doing chores at home etc.
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Answer:
"The Road Not Taken" is an ambiguous poem that allows the reader to think about choices in life, whether to go with the mainstream or go it alone. If life is a journey, this poem highlights those times in life when a decision has to be made.
The speaker, walking through a forest whose leaves have turned yellow in autumn, comes to a fork in the road. The speaker, regretting that he or she is unable to travel by both roads (since he or she is, after all, just one person), stands at the fork in the road for a long time and tries to see where one of the paths leads. However, the speaker can't see very far because the forest is dense and the road is not straight.
The speaker takes the other path, judging it to be just as good a choice as the first, and supposing that it may even be the better option of the two, since it is grassy and looks less worn than the other path. Though, now that the speaker has actually walked on the second road, he or she thinks that in reality the two roads must have been more or less equally worn-in.
Reinforcing this statement, the speaker recalls that both roads were covered in leaves, which had not yet been turned black by foot traffic. The speaker exclaims that he or she is in fact just saving the first road, and will travel it at a later date, but then immediately contradicts him or herself with the acknowledgement that, in life, one road tends to lead onward to another, so it's therefore unlikely that he or she will ever actually get a chance to return to that first road.
Answer:
the road not taken
Explanation:
as this poem means that opportunity only knock once so I would like to share one incident in which I was shifting my house to the other corner of the town as me and my family was shifting the house that time we realized that there was one big bungalow in the same prize and we were shifting to a very small house ..and luckily that house was not sold so later we shifted into the big bungalow instead of a small house now me and my family are living happily ..so I can relate my story to the road not taken poem.