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1. The Road
not taken
By – Robert Frost

2. The poem is as follows :
• 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,

3. • 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

4. • The literal meaning of this poem is about a
traveler that is on a road and at this point of this
poem it splits into two paths. The traveler wishes
that he could travel both of them. The traveler
looked at both the roads and he found that the one
was traveled more than the other was. He took the
one that was least traveled. Neither road had been
traveled lately. He said that he would leave the
other one for another day. But he doubted that he
would ever come back. Then he says that he took
the road less traveled by and that has made all
the difference.
SUMMARY OF THE Poem

5. About the poem
• “The Road Not Taken” is a poem by Robert Frost, published
in 1916 in the collection Mountain Interval. It is the first
poem in the volume and is printed in italics. The title is often
mistakenly given as “The Road Less Traveled”, from the
penultimate line: “I took the one less traveled by’’
• "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem consisting of
four stanzas of iambic tetrameter (though it is hypermetric by
one beat – there are nine syllables per line instead of the strict
eight required for tetrameter) and is one of Frost's most
popular works. This poem, besides being among the best
known, is also one of the most misunderstood.

6. POEM CATEGORIZATION
• SUBJECT -Time &
Brevity, Nature, Landscapes &
Pastorals, Living, Midlife, Fall
• POET’S REGION -U.S., New
England
• POETIC TERMS -Rhymed
Stanza

7. SIR ROBERT FROST
• Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26,
1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and
became interested in reading and writing poetry during
his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He
was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at
Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree.
• Frost drifted through a string of occupations after
leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor
of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem,
“My Butterfly," was published on November 8, 1894, in
the New York newspaper-The Independent`

8. PICTURES