The Road Not Take: Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

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.

Summary: ‘The Road Not Taken’ written by Robert Frost is a nice poem depicting the minds of the modern men. A common feature of a modern man is dilemma which is nicely shown here. Through the traveler, the poet shows the indecisive aspects of the people. A common or an ordinary person normally takes or follows the much trodden path whereas the modern traveler takes the less trodden one. Finally, we also see that the traveler does not bother for undergoing the risk of his life.