We've been going over some poems in my English class at school, and I'm a fan of Robert Frost so I'd like to share with you his amazing poem called The Road Not Taken.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, a
And sorry I could not travel both b
And be one traveler, long I stood a
And looked down one as far as I could a
To where it bent in the undergrowth; b
Then took the other, as just as fair, c
And having perhaps the better claim d
Because it was grassy and wanted wear, c
Though as for that the passing there c
Had worn them really about the same, d
And both that morning equally lay e
In leaves no step had trodden black. f
Oh, I marked the first for another day! e
Yet knowing how way leads on to way e
I doubted if I should ever come back. f
I shall be telling this with a sigh g
Somewhere ages and ages hence: h
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, g
I took the one less traveled by, g
And that has made all the difference. h
Robert Frost's poems always catch my attention because there is always some kind of mysteriousness lurking around at the end. Basically the road is a metaphor for two paths one can choose in their life. The "yellow wood" symbolizes change, usually in the autumn the color of the leaves will change. The rhyme scheme stays the same throughout the poem, which I have written out in green. Between the first and second stanza shift is shown, first the narrator looks down one road but the decides on the latter. He doesn't really know where which road will take him, but he knows after taking the chance he won't be able to come back. Some might misunderstand the poem, one might say "So the poem is telling us that when we come to a fork in the road, it's telling us to go the other way..." No, the narrator isn't telling the reader that at all. First of all, there isn't even a road that is "less traveled by" in the poem, they're both equal. Second, the narrator wants the reader to step back and take a look at it before continuing. In the last stanza the narrator foreshadows that he will regret his decision of taking the second path later on in his life. "I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence". The speaker knows that later down the road he will second guess himself. I think the thematic statement is about taking chances and having confidence in the choices that you make. Overall, I think this poem was wonderful along with many of Frost's other poems.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, a
And sorry I could not travel both b
And be one traveler, long I stood a
And looked down one as far as I could a
To where it bent in the undergrowth; b
Then took the other, as just as fair, c
And having perhaps the better claim d
Because it was grassy and wanted wear, c
Though as for that the passing there c
Had worn them really about the same, d
And both that morning equally lay e
In leaves no step had trodden black. f
Oh, I marked the first for another day! e
Yet knowing how way leads on to way e
I doubted if I should ever come back. f
I shall be telling this with a sigh g
Somewhere ages and ages hence: h
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, g
I took the one less traveled by, g
And that has made all the difference. h
Robert Frost's poems always catch my attention because there is always some kind of mysteriousness lurking around at the end. Basically the road is a metaphor for two paths one can choose in their life. The "yellow wood" symbolizes change, usually in the autumn the color of the leaves will change. The rhyme scheme stays the same throughout the poem, which I have written out in green. Between the first and second stanza shift is shown, first the narrator looks down one road but the decides on the latter. He doesn't really know where which road will take him, but he knows after taking the chance he won't be able to come back. Some might misunderstand the poem, one might say "So the poem is telling us that when we come to a fork in the road, it's telling us to go the other way..." No, the narrator isn't telling the reader that at all. First of all, there isn't even a road that is "less traveled by" in the poem, they're both equal. Second, the narrator wants the reader to step back and take a look at it before continuing. In the last stanza the narrator foreshadows that he will regret his decision of taking the second path later on in his life. "I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence". The speaker knows that later down the road he will second guess himself. I think the thematic statement is about taking chances and having confidence in the choices that you make. Overall, I think this poem was wonderful along with many of Frost's other poems.
