9-1The+Road+Not+Taken

**The Road Not Taken**  Table of Contents Favorite Poems //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.

 Analysis: In the first stanza, Robert Frost is starting off by describing the setting. He is walking through the wilderness and comes to a stop where there is a fork in the road. He really wants to travel on both he cannot do that. He waits there looking down the paths as long as he can until he decides which road he will take. In the second stanza, he continues to describe about the two roads. He sees that one seems to less traveled by but then realizes that they have been traveled about the same. In the third stanza, Frost compares the two paths. Seeing that fresh leaves have fallen on them but they both seem to be walked on already. So he thing that maybe he can go on one path but he doubts he will come back to take the other one because time moves to quick and in life we make decisions that don't bring us back to where we started. In the final stanza, there seems to be either a sign of relief in that the narrator is happy with his choice in with path he takes, or there a sign of dismay in that he has chosen the wrong path and feels regret. Though the reader seems undecided on what kind of sigh it is, he doesn't know how in the future this choice he has made will affect him and his life.