We can only look back later and wonder which choice of us resulted in what. The division of choices will always be there in life. The meaning inherent in the last lines is boundless. It describes the way we give meaning to everything we do even if done in an arbitrary fashion. The poet anticipates in the end that someday he will be telling about this choice of the road somewhere after a long time perhaps as a fairy tale because in the last stanza the language becomes fairy-tale like. 'The Road Not Taken' explores themes of life decisions, regrets, and. 'The Road Not Taken' has a regular ABAAB rhyme scheme and consists of 20 lines divided into four quintains. This shows the habit of regret which some people have regarding everything they do which they question later that how else it could have been. 'The Road Not Taken' was written by American poet Robert Frost and published in his 1916 Mountain Interval poetry collection. Ince the poet decides which path to follow, he says that Oh, I kept the first for another day but with a doubt whether he will ever come back. It is shown in this poem perfectly because he doesn’t offer any perspective but simply describes the randomness of the choices made in life.įrost’s role as a drifter is that of a poet. Yvor Winter characterizes Frost as a spiritual drifter. When the poet is standing in front of that diversion, for him both roads are equally untravelled. But the complexity comes from the fact that it is thought in retrospection when one gets to know that in life, even when paths look the same, they lead to different destinations. Their description is really about the same. The poem proceeds into the difference between the two roads because they look so identical. For a moment, the poet contemplates this dilemma. Doppelganger is a body double of someone who haunts that person. The poet imagines his life’s proceeding as his own doppelganger. The realistic description of two roads and the wood is simple but the meaning extends beyond it. In this case, the road refers to a path in life. The road referred to by the speaker is the most prominent symbol in the poem. In this poem, Symbolism is the tool used to bring about this reflection. Here the choice Is arbitrary but the point is whether the results of our choices are clearer only in hindsight? The poem was written to mock an indecisive friend with whom Frost used to go out for walks. In The Road Not Taken, the poet uses a reflective tone to address the significance of the choices one makes in life. In the very second line, the poet is already sure that he can’t travel both so the choice must be made. The poem begins candidly in a dilemma of two roads diverging in a yellow wood.
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