![]() ![]() “The Road Not Taken” consists of four stanzas of five lines. What is the form of the road not taken?Īns: Form. The path which we have chosen, decides our future, our destination. He describes his feelings about that choice that he had left in the past. The poet says that the path that we don’t choose in our life is ‘the road not taken’. What is the summary of the road not taken?Īns: In the poem – ‘The Road Not Taken’, the road symbolizes our life. But if we are fortunate enough to make a right choice, we would be successful. If we fail to make a right decision, our life would be full of miseries. Therefore, it is important to make a right choice because our future is heavily dependent on it. Neither can we alter the decision once made by us. But we cannot take up all the choices at a time. We come across many alternatives or choices in life. Thus, the poet talks about one of the basic problems of human life the problem of making the right choice out of many. He would be telling that since he had taken the less travelled road, it made all the difference in his life. It shows the poet as an adventurous man ready to take risks in life which everyone should be like.The poet now feels that after ages from now he would be looking back at this decision with a ‘sigh’. Here he advises doing something different also. He feels that his life has been very different from the common people because he has always been tempted to take the path not generally followed by others. Now he feels that life has been completely different. Then the poem shifts to the last stanza and the poet become completely philosophical and talk as if he has travelled for a long era and looks back at the choices that he made in life and their consequences. Finally, the poet started moving on the second road. He also knows the manner in which one path leads on to the other. At the same time, he knows that the chances of his returning that way are very less. However, he decides to take the second path with the intention of walking on the first any other day in the future. We cannot travel all the available roads no matter how much we may wish to. He keeps on thinking for a long time and comes to the conclusion that he cannot walk on both. It was grassy and wanted wear means less travelled. It seemed to have been travelled by many people. He looks at the first road as far as he can see, till it bends in the undergrowth. He stands there for long and starts debating over the choice. One day while walking in a wooded area full of trees with yellow leaves, the poet comes to a fork in the place and he has to decide which road he should take. The poem presents a dilemma that every man faces in his life. Robert frost wants to tell that the choice we make in our lives has a far-reaching result. The poet talks about two roads in the poem, in fact, the two roads are two alternative ways of life. But the poet neither seems to be very happy nor very sad with his choice and leaves the end open to the readers and their choices.It was very difficult to say whether the choice was right or wrong on the spur of the moment.The choice had been made and it made all the difference in his life.The poet had a doubt that he would never get a chance to travel on the first road again.He chose the second road and `kept the first for another day’.The poet had to make a choice and he resolved the dilemma.The second road was grassy, less frequented by travellers and ‘wanted wear’.The other road was just as fair and perhaps presented a better claim.He looked down one as far as he could till it bent away in the undergrowth. ![]() He was sorry that he couldn’t travel both at the same time.The poet was standing at a place where two roads/ paths ‘diverged in a yellow wood’.
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