in rural landscape to contemplate the isolation, between settlements, activities and memories, as well as between the self and the natural world " (30). Therefore, before reading the poem one can expect subtle images and connections between the self and the nature.
             Now that we have a rudimentary knowledge of the background, and the purveying general mood at the time and the place this particular poem was written, we'll try to give an objective, personal assessment of the poem. We start here with the title of the poem:
             The Road Not Taken
             First, a cursory look at the title tells us that whatever we're about to read is given to us in retrospect, because of the verb tense "taken." Second, we can safely deduce that "Not" involves a choice that the
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