the road not taken
1998 "The Road Not Taken" Rather Than "The Road Taken?" A Title, A Choice The title of a poem often reflects the author's theme. In his poem "The Road Not Taken" Frost's theme is about choices. He had two roads to chose from and wonders what would have happened had he taken the other road. His title reflects this. The first three lines, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /And be one traveler, long I stood", tell us the narrator must choose between two roads he finds eq
The choice he held on to, then somberly let go, becomes "The Road Not Taken. The narrator seems content with his choice yet he tells of it with a sigh: not so much a regretful sigh but a speculative one. He wants to hold on to the other possibility, but knows this cannot be. He is resolving himself to the fact that even when "ages and ages" pass, he will still wonder what if he had taken the other road. The title of this poem "The Road Not taken" gives us insight to and reflects this theme. " In the last stanza of this poem Frost writes, "I shall be telling this with a sigh /Somewhere ages and ages hence: /Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- /I took the one less traveled by, /And that has made all the difference. The fact that he is sorry he cannot travel, or choose, both paves the way for regret or wonderment. Here, he knows he is bound by that choice. It is apparent the narrator has a difficult choice to make and is carefully considering his options. " This is where the narrator makes his choice. After the choice of roads is described and considered, Frost writes "Oh, I kept the first for another day! /Yet knowing how way leads on to way, /I doubted if I should ever come back. But more than that, it is about the choices not made and the idea of wondering about them.
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