Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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.Appreciation
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The poem The Road Not Taken talks about the important decisions to be taken with caution and alertness. One needs to be an active and minute observer and just decision maker in life thinking about all the pros and cons of the choices made in life.
The Road Not Taken’ is more than a poem about someone trying to decide which road he’s going to take on a stroll through the woods. It is a poem about the journey of life. The two roads diverged in a yellow wood forest symbolizing a person’s life.
The narrator’s choice about which road to take represents the different decisions we sometimes must make and how those decisions will affect the future.
Think of the expression, ‘down the road’, that we often use to describe something that might happen months or even years from now, and you will see how Frost is making the connection between life and traveling. Frost captures the uncertainty about making decisions.
Our natural desire to know what will happen because of the decisions we make is in the first stanza of the poem: