8/16/2023 0 Comments Poem the road not taken summaryBut the difference it made was that he was able to move ahead. The prom ends with the line “ And that has made all the difference.” This doesn’t say what type of difference his choice made. ![]() He still thinks about what could have happened if he had taken the other road. While the narrator made his choice independently without any external force, he still regrets it. The poem isn’t about individuality or uniqueness, it’s about accepting the fact that regret will always be there. ![]() This is the consolation he has created to calm his mind and let him make a choice. But in order to keep going, he must make a choice. He doubts he will get a chance again to make the same decision, as it is with life. The narrator makes his choice by telling his mind that he will take this road and explore the opportunities later. So what must he do to keep moving? That is where the next line saying “I kept the first for another day” comes. He tries to assume one path is better, different than the other, but soon realizes that it isn’t. So he started giving attributes to each, to make his mind decide one road so that he can move ahead. The roads were similar, both were “less traveled.” But inside the mind of the narrator, this similarity was causing him to stop. This shows an important part of the reality of the roads (and the choices) as well as the thinking of the narrator. In the very next line, the narrator says this The second road is described as “just as fair” though it was “grassy and wanted wear.” So one might think that the other road was less traveled, right? Not exactly. The roads are very similar to each other, which is the reason for the dilemma. That is the truth about life and its decisions. He says “I shall be telling you with a sigh.” This means that he isn’t calling his decision good or bad, it just means that no matter what choice he took, regret was inevitable. It is popularly thought that the narrator of The Road Not Taken chooses the less traveled road and hence it made all the difference, the fact is, there was no road that was “less traveled.” While Frost says that he took the road less traveled and that has made all the difference, pay attention to what precedes before that. Some poems by Robert Frost that you cannot miss.Fire and Ice symbolism: The meaning of love and hatred.But in the end, he has to walk on one road. “And looked down as far as I could” shows that the narrator is trying to weigh all the possible consequences of taking the paths. ![]() And looked down one as far as I could” Frost conveys the effect of a choice and the condition of indecisiveness. In the line “And be one traveler, long I stood. The roads diverged, giving the traveler two choices. They aren’t green, they aren’t brown and on the ground, but in the middle. First, the woods are described as “yellow.” We know that the leaves have a yellow hue when they reach the middle of their lifespan. There are a lot of metaphors that are used in the poem that indicates being in between two decision.
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