Choice becomes meaningful only in retrospect, a measure of the ability of the mind later to refashion such impulsive decisions into something that passes for wisdom.
A major expression of Modernism, in which a generation of daring and uncompromising poets, centered in England, recast the nature of poetry itself through a subtle use of irony that infused their verse with an alarming sense of anxiety and spiritual crisis, the poem resists making heroic the assertion of choice in life and suggests in fact that such dramatic choices really have no consequences. The result of the pick determines if it was the right one or not.The poem, however, is deceptively simple. Similarly, we only think about past decisions after having made them over time. The poet only thought about the road not taken after starting on his chosen road. Both these choices almost equally appealed to him and put him in a tough situation. Q4) Bring light to the symbolism used in the poem.Ī) The diverging roads at the fork depict the choices we make daily that affect our being. The poet believes that this particular decision has shaped his entire life. But at a point in life, he comes to think about the tough choice he had to once make and leave the road more tread on behind. Q3) Elaborate on the poem’s title, “The Road not Taken.”Ī) The poet was once faced with a diverging choice, and he chose the road not traveled on by too many people. One of these paths was chosen fewer times and had more grass to prove it. This was a diverging path and he had to choose one to continue. Q2) What did the narrator see in the woods? Were the two paths similar?Ī) The narrator arrived at a fork in the woods or the forest. However, he didn’t think he would be able to do it as one path leads to another, and returning is often difficult. Q1) What did the narrator hope to do one day? Was he sure of achieving this wish?Ī) The narrator wanted to come back and tread on the path he chose to ignore the first time around. One bad and negligible decision can call for the whole life of regret. An individual should choose with great caution and remember that the effects of these choices will pertain forevermore. This poem thus delivers a very important message. All choices you make impact your future like a domino effect. Robert Frost is trying to imply that the decisions taken in one’s youth make for a man’s future personality. This settlement is what lead him to become the man he is today. And when faced with this pick, he chose the path taken by fewer people. In the future, the poet says, that he was once faced with a very tough choice where both sides appealed to him equally.
Likewise, in life, after we’ve moved forward with one choice and treaded on that path, it’s impossible to restart after you fail. But both the readers and the poet are well aware that one cannot return to the other path.
The poet decides to take on one of those paths but immediately points out that he has left the other one for another day.
No one had stepped on them and thus they remained green. In the morning or the start of the day, both the paths seemed the same with leaves on them. In the same way, we might come to think that we are in a better position than others but all of us go through our own individual journeys. On moving forward, he realizes that both the paths were equally worn out and had turnouts nonetheless. He believed both the paths to be equally good but the one he chose was definitely better for him. Similarly, in life, we have to make choices that may lead to good or bad consequences.Īfter longingly looking at one path, the author chooses the alternate one. He wanted to understand the downs and ups of both paths before taking it on. He could see the path till where it curved, as afterward it was covered with trees. Before he could choose which path to walk down on, he wanted to understand how it would be. The poet stretched his eyesight till the farthest point. The path stands at the fork and analyses the decision carefully. Being singular, he could choose only one of these paths. This poem, written by Robert Frost, depicts a scenario where a man is faced with a diversion on the road he was walking on.
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