It wanted people to wear down the grassy road through use. He thought that it had a greater claim for travelers as it was grassy and wanted people to travel through it. Therefore, he looked as far as possible till the road curved among the bushes and was no longer visible.Īfter much contemplation he took the other road which looked just as good as the other. He wanted to travel through both the roads and felt sorry that he was unable to do so.
He wanted to make the correct choice and therefore found himself in a dilemma about choosing the right one. As he walked through the wood he came across a diversion or a fork on the road.
In the poem the poet describes his experience of a walk through the woods one autumn morning. The road is the metaphor of that journey and the diversions in the road stand for the different choices that one comes across as one travels through life. The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is about the choices that one makes in the journey of life. Frost, one of the best-known and most beloved American poets of the 20th century, won the Pulitzer Prize four times for New Hampshire (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943).Īnd that has made all the difference. He avoided the poetic experiments of his time and was a poet of traditional verse forms and meter. Frost mostly wrote about the life and landscape of New England. Robert Frost was born on March 26 th, 1873 in San Francisco and died in January 29, 1963.
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