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In this poem, explore how Robert Frost presents the ‘road’ as a symbol of the choices we make in life:
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.
The road the character is walking on splits into two directions and this represents the character coming to a point in his life where he has to make a decision. The poet describes one road as ‘grassy’ and wanting ‘wear’, this suggests this is the less popular choice but may look appealing to the character. He is having a hard time deciding, as this decision could be life changing and have a positive impact or negative impact on his life.
At the beginning Robert Forest starts the peom of with “Two roads diverged”. This already gives the audience a theme of choice whether to go one way or the other. The fact that yhe audience can see this imagery of two roads it cn show them how hard it can be to make a choice
Considering which road to take (path to take in life) is an extremely difficult choice ‘long I stood’ and trying hard to look ‘down one as far as I could’. Robert Frost is desperately trying to think about whether either has the advantage wavering between thinking both are ‘just as fair’ and that the roads ‘equally lay’ in one moment and then in the next moment, thinking one may be preferable as it is ‘wanting wear’ using the word ‘perhaps’ meaning he experiences uncertainty but is grasping at something. He knows the decision is life changing and can already see himself explaining his decision in the distant future. He already has the foresight to know that it is unlikely that once he takes one road, he will not be able to change his mind. He eventually takes the road he believes may be less traveled and we interpret that it was the better choice as ‘it has made all the difference’ but are left with a curiosity about what this means and on what basis Robert Frost makes this claim.
robert frost depicts a picture of how an individual is in the middle of two roads ,this road signifies the decisions he is to make is his life and fortunately for him he chooses a road which turns out to be the right one but before then it seems like a form of tension start to build inside on which road he should pick but he ends up being lucky in the end
this is a poem that brings tension upon someone