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• The Road Not Taken is a well-known poem by Robert Frost and it is about making choices in our life
• The road

  Symbolizes our life and the path that we don't choose
• We should be wise while making a decision as we cannot undo them and our life is determined by our choices
• The poet's experience

  1. Strolling down the road

  2. Came to a junction

  3. Could only walk on one of the pathways

  4. After much deliberation, chose to follow a different path
• The two roads

  • Appeared equally good
  • One was a grassy road that appeared less travelled
• The poet chose the less travelled path

  Realized it was a better path for him
• The poet recognized after a short way on the road that both paths were alike
• The poet felt that his future depended on the decision he took, and that if he went further on the chosen path, he would not be able to turn back
• The poem communicates that the decisions we make have a big influence on our future
• We can't go back in time and change our minds if we make the incorrect decision
• The poem encourages us to be careful when making life decisions
• When making decisions, one should be very intelligent and attentive since our decisions determine our destiny
• One wrong mistake might cause us to regret it for the rest of our lives
• Robert Frost: 'The Road Not Taken'
• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

  The poet was standing at a road with a fork
• The poet could not travel on both roads

  He had to choose one path
• The poet looked down one road as far as he could to where it bent in the undergrowth
• The other road

  Was grassy and wanted wear, though the passing there had worn them really about the same
• The poet took the other road, as just as fair, because it was grassy and wanted wear
• The traveller finds himself at a fork in the road and faces the problem of having to choose one path
• Phrases from the poem

  • a yellow wood
  • it was grassy and wanted wear
  • the passing there
  • leaves no step had trodden black
  • how way leads on to way
• There is no significant difference between the two roads as the poet describes them in stanzas two and three, and in the last two lines of the poem
• The last two lines of the poem mean that the poet accepts the choice he has made, even though he may wonder about the path not taken
• The poem encourages the reader to carefully consider their choices, as the decisions we make can have a significant impact on our lives
• Even after making a choice, it is natural to wonder about the path not taken, but the wise course of action is to accept the reality of the choice made