The Road Not Taken|Robert Frost|Summary&Analysis
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| The Road Not Taken |
The poem "The Road Not Taken" was written by the very popular American writer Robert Frost. This poem is about a traveller who has a problem in choosing his road or it was a real experience of the writer while travelling somewhere. When the writer was ready to go somewhere, he saw two separated roads. Here the writer was confused in choosing the right road for him. Both roads got lost into the forest of yellow coloured trees.
The writer could not decide which was the right way to travel because he could not travel through both the roads at the same time. He was in great confusion so he thought about it for a long time. In the beginning, he thought that one road better than the other but he could not see clearly far enough because after some distance It was lost into bushes and trees.
After it, he saw the second road carefully but it also looked the same as the first road. According to the poet, the second road was better because the grass on it had not been worn out because the travellers had not walked on it very frequently. On the other hand, both the roads were similar.
The poet had only confusion that the second road was better than first. As both the roads were covered with leaves and now the poet was confused in making the right choice. It was the morning time and it was now important for him to chose a road. At last, he decided to make his travel by the second road. He left the first road for some other day.
He knew that it had become difficult for him to return to that place from where he had started. In this way, the poet was describing his decision of choosing the second road for travel and leaving the first road. He also said that in future he would regret for his wrong decision.
Actually, the poet had chosen the road which had been less travelled by a large number of travellers. According to the poet, his decision might be wrong in future and for it, he would be responsible because he had chosen according to his own choice.
Thus the poem is also related to the journey of a human being. Sometimes we are also in the same situation of life where we have to choose one option and take a decision immediately and we are in confusion which option will be right for us. Actually, the road in this poem symbolizes our life.
