Poem

“The Road Not Taken”

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. 

This poem is by an amazing poet by the name of Robert Frost. This was first published in 1916 in a book called Mountain Interval. This poem is quite famous and talks about like and the different paths people take. When I tried my hand at trying to understand the poem, I took the meaning as there are two roads that show up during your life but you should choose the one that speaks to you more which is the one that Robert took. This is classified as a poem because of the format that it is written in. It is also classified as a poem because of the meter. Poems are meant to be read in a certain fashion while books are read for fun. This poem really shows the theme of the meaning of life because he talks about being faced with two paths that he could take but taking the less worn out one.