What is the moral presented by Robert Frost in the poem "The Road Not Taken" explain in( 120-150 words)
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Explanation:
Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" deals with situations in life where humans are presented with choices by metaphorically depicting a fork in the road. The speaker reflects on the fact that he took the road less taken when he had to make a choice, and he says that this decision has made all the difference in his life.
What is remarkable about Robert Frost's famous poem "The Road Not Taken" is that the setting he describes in the first three stanzas is not a real place at all but a fairly simple and obvious metaphor. The poet is thinking about a time in his life when he had to make an extremely serious choice about what direction he would take in his life. This may very likely have been a career choice. But he was not literally standing at a crossroads looking down two diverging roads--although he might have been taking a long walk in the nature he loved so well while he was trying to decide on which of two irrevocable life-choices he would make.
The poem owes its strong emotional effect to the fact that Frost invents a very simple and familiar metaphor and then draws the reader inside that metaphor--so that the reader feels he is actually standing in some yellow woods on a cold day in late autumn at a lonely place where two dirt roads diverge in opposite directions. The reader is inside Frost's metaphor.
It is only in the last stanza that the illusion is dispelled, and the reader realizes it was only a metaphor after all.
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.
The lines that reads "Somewhere ages and ages hence" is a puzzler. It almost sounds as if the speaker thinks he is immortal and will be able to tell about the incident for hundreds and hundreds of years. Another rather uncanny possible interpretation is that the speaker knows he is immortal because he is already dead! The reader has been listening to the words of a dead man.
A poem does not necessarily have to have a moral (like Rudyard Kipling's "If"). A poem has to produce an emotional effect. And Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" certainly does that.
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