The Road Not Taken: Analysis
By
Robert Frost
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;
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,
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.
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 Road Not Taken is a poem written by Robert Frost was published in 1915. The poem tells the story of a man who faces two paths and have a conflict in choosing which path should take or not. He wants to experience the adventure of passing the two paths; however, he can only pick one. These two roads can be internal choices or external and literal decisions, but it represents the problem of not being able to divide himself in order to walk through the different ways. At the end of the last stanza, the man decides to take the road that was less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
The title of the poem The Road Not Taken is related to the poem itself and references to the choices that you can do in life. It represents that choice that will not be known because of choosing the one and only road. In terms of poetic form, the poem follows a structure that contain four stanzas. Each stanza has five lines that have end rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is (ABAAB). On the other hand, there is one alliteration in stanza two, line ninth, with the words though, that, the, there. Moreover, the poem also provides an internal rhyme in stanza one, line fourth, where the poet says ‘‘And looked down one as far as I could,’’ those two words have the same vowel sound. However, non-stanza shows consonance. The tone goes from indecisive to determined to choose the less traveled road, a road that makes the difference.
About the author:
Robert Frost was an American poet who was born on March, 26, 1874, in San Francisco. He studied in both Dartmouth College and Harvard University. According to the Poetry Foundation ‘‘Frost's first book was published around the age of 40, but he would go on to win a record four Pulitzer Prizes and become the most famous poet of his time, before his death at the age of 88.’’ His works “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Death of the Hired Man’’, and ‘‘The Road Not Taken’’, are just a few examples of the many others he wrote and which were greatly loved by America and even nowadays his works are remembered. Frost died on January 29, 1963, in Boston, USA.
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