POEM-THE ROAD NOT TAKEN BY ROBERT FROST

1. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
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2. Poetry
Definition – Writing in language chosen and arranged to
create a particular emotional response through
meaning, sound and rhythm.
• “Poetry can communicate before it is understood” (T.S.
Eliot)
• “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and
the thought has found words” (Frost)

3. Choice & Cost
Every choice you make has a cost because choosing
to do one thing means giving up the opportunity to
do something else.
Faced with the same options , different people make
different choices because each person has his / her
own way of making decisions based on different
values and beliefs.
When faced with the need to make a decision we try
to think about the cost and guess the outcome.

5. The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
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;
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,
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.
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.

6. Analysis and Literary Terms
• What is the poem about ?
• The poem is about a dilemma, the need to
come to a decision / solve a problem
• This is the theme of the poem
– Theme – the central philosophical idea of a story
or poem. We can usually find the theme by asking
ourselves – what is the poem / story about?

7. • Is the speaker really standing in a forest
thinking which way to go
• The road symbolize
The road = Life
– Symbolism - the use of a concrete image (symbol)
to represent an abstract idea.

8. • The main dilemma in the poem
The speaker is at a fork in the road – he has to
choose which way to go.
• The fork in the road is a metaphor for a point
in life when you need to make a choice.
• A metaphor is a type of comparison in which
one thing is described as if it was something
else (example: life is a box of chocolates)

9. • The speaker solve his dilemma
– He compares the two roads
– He weighs the pros and cons
– He tries to foresee the future
• Road does he choose was
– the less traveled by
– The more adventurous / the less conventional ??

10. Problem Solving
Problem solving is a thinking skill the involves:
• Identifying the problem
• Considering the options
• Weighing the pros and cons of each option
• Reaching a decision