![]() ![]() They go down a path and all the others are not chosen. I love reading this poem with young people as they are at the age where many of life's choices are being made every day. Interesting addition to this Frost poem analysis, grateful. Oh, well, it's led me to where I am today, which isn't so bad.not at all.Īndrew Spacey (author) from Sheffield, UK on February 25, 2019: ![]() Looking back on some of the choices I've made at that fork, I can clearly see that I took the wrong path. I, like others, have come to that proverbial "fork in the road" many times. Thanks, Andrew, for this excellent analysis of one of my favorite Robert Frost poems. It seems we have to make mistakes - travel down the wrong road - in order to learn from experience? Frost's Road Not Taken is different for every single reader, something to ponder on.Īudrey Hunt from Pahrump NV on February 26, 2019: If we could always take the right road we perhaps wouldn't be human. ![]() Maybe that idea is for another poem.Īndrew Spacey (author) from Sheffield, UK on February 26, 2019: But now he can do nothing as his choice is irrevocable.One does have to be able to recognize a mistake, however. Perhaps the road that was not taken could have proved more rewarding than the road that was taken. Only the poet will be ‘telling this with a sigh’ that his choice has made all the difference in his life. It is very difficult to decide on the spur of the moment. It is very difficult to say whether the road we have chosen will lead us to the desired end. He doubts if he will ever get a chance to walk on the road he has already left. He knows how one way leads to the other and one marches on reaching a point of no return. When the poet leaves the first road for another day, he has also a genuine doubt. He leaves the first road for another day.īoth the roads lie before him covered with the fallen leaves. He chooses the other road because it is less travelled by. But it presents a better claim in one sense. The other road is ‘just as fair as the first one’. He looks at the first road as far as he can see, till it bends in the undergrowth. He is a single traveller and can’t travel on both the roads at the same time. Two roads are branching out in two different directions. The poet stands at a junction in a yellow forest. The choice we make, makes ‘all the difference in life’. They stand for two choices, two alternative ways of life and two different directions of life. Frost uses the two roads as metaphors for life. The poem brings out the importance of making a choice. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |