Notes On &Quot;Road Not Taken&Quot;
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Overview of the Poem
• Walking in a wood and the road comes to a fork
• He stands a long time at the meeting of the two roads and looks down one path as far as he can but it disappears in the ‘undergrowth’ as it takes a bend
• He then considers the second path. He sees it is less worn and has more grass. The leaves are still untrodden so the paths remain fresh and exciting. It seems that he is the first traveller to pass this way for a while
• ‘long I stood’ shows that he contemplated the decision
• The persona begins to think about how he cannot take both paths and be the same “travelerâ€
• “Oh, I kept the first for another day!†Despite this wish he realizes he can never come back and take the untaken path because his choice will lead him in a different direction. He knows that “way leads on to way.†Realistically he doubts if he will ever come back because it is impossible to return to that place and make......
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