What is the meaning of the line 'grassy and wanted wear"
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“The road not taken” is a poem written by Robert Frost. The poem is about a traveller who happens to come across the woods. He happens to come to a point which had two divergent routes. He is confused as to which one to pick.
“Because it was grassy and wanted wear;”
The above line is about the second route. He finds that this route is not much used. He can say that it is not much used because it is grassy.
“Wanted wear”, here mean lacking the wear. That is, The road is not much pressed or handled. He picks the same to move on with his journey.
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This expression from the poem ‘Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost means: ‘The road that he was walking on one morning got forked at one point into two roads. One of them was much traveled on, but the other was perfectly green, which implied very people had used that road.
He stood long at the point where the road diverged into two roads, not able to decide as to which of the two roads he should take. He was willing to travel on both the roads simultaneously; but practically it is not possible. So he decided to take the road which appeared to have been traveled less.