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Robert frost road not taken7/8/2023 Without knowing what lies ahead of him on that road, Frost says that the speaker might be incapable of returning to the same spot and choose the other path. “Yet knowing how way leads on to way/ I doubted if I should ever come back.” He considers picking one of the roads for the time being, which brings me to my favorite lines (14 and 15) in the poem: Once again, the speaker is uncertain how to go about his journey. They cover the grass and lay still and untouched by anyone (“no step had trodden black” ), meaning no one has been there. Upon closely inspecting the roads, though, the speaker firmly grasps that the grass on both sides appear ‘worn really about the same’ (line 10) so then again, he cannot see the difference.įurthermore, the speaker notices that on this autumn day, leaves fallen from the trees have fallen on the roads. The fact that he spends so much time contemplating proves that he sees himself as innovative in mind, perhaps as far as regarding himself a daring adventurer. This detail implies some of the speaker’s character: He prefers to stand apart from the crowd and approach matters differently than other people, or maybe even do completely new things. The speaker thinks he might as well pick this one, because it seems grassier and unused. When he gives up his observation, he turns his attention to the other road. However, he cannot tell much from where he is standing, because it is impossible to tell once the road turns in a bent. Frost implicates that this traveler ‘stood and looked down’ one of the roads for a long while, attempting to predict what it held before him (line 3 and 4). The following line mentions a time long passed, which exceptionally proves that that this person acknowledges that there is no way for him to change his affected circumstances.Īnalyzing the poem stanza by stanza, it is possible to see that whatever decision the speaker made it is a conflict nonetheless. The sigh shows no indication of the speaker’s feelings. The tone is difficult to decipher, thereby creating a challenge in understanding whether the speaker is glad about the decision he made. Many have found this poem to be about individuality, emphasizing on the fact that the speaker traveled the road no one else has taken before him. The speaker is not necessarily Frost himself, but probably an elderly person reminiscing over a moment in his life when a choice decided his fate.
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