He admits that someday he will recreate the scene with a different outcome. He will claim that he took the less-traveled road. This is why I chose this poem, because he realizes that regret is inevitable. In Robert Frost's poem, “The Road Not Taken,” he shows that regardless of the choices people make, he knows that he will miss the experiences he might have encountered on the road not taken. However, I did dislike that it does not say, “When you come to a fork in the road, study the footprints and take the road less traveled,” Frost made the focus more complicated.
Since he can only travel one way, he has to make a conscious decision of choosing the right path. He has to make a choice whereby he can take one road but in the process would be required to forsake the other. The line "Way leads on to way” (Frost) symbolizes the poet's puzzlement, how he is caught up in a muddle with regards to decision–making. In the end, Frost chooses the road that appears at first glance to be grassy and neglected therefore less travelled. Which was demonstrated in the line” Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear” (Frost).These lines are a metaphor for a decision that is less commonly made.
Interpreting "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" seems to speak of a person making decisions in life based on following their own desires rather than following the path that most commonly taken. It is about taking risks in life and not being afraid to go in directions that others would not normally go. However, in reviewing the analysis of others, I find that my interpretation of the meaning of this poem is very different from what the speaker may have intended. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker talks of two roads that he has come upon in the woods and his regret that he must chose one. Alone, he stands looking down the one path that seems to be the one taken by those who came before him.
In the third stanza the traveler indicates that the road he chose made a impact on the future. The poem states "Two roads diverged in wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by." The statement in lines eighteen an nineteen is symbolic to the travelers decision. He did not take the easier road that others have chose. This statement leaves me with the image of a lonely man.
The poem works so well in part because of his brilliant use of ambiguity to describe the difficult but necessary process of making choices in life, a theme that would be central to his work” (The Road Not Taken, 2001). I interpreted in this short poem that the road he took was the path less traveled in the journey of life opposed to the road that is always traveled in the journey of life. “Frost presents the literal image of two roads. But he suggests that they stand for something besides what their literal meaning conveys they represent (symbolize) life pathways, on which events in our day-by-day experiences unfold” (Clugston, 2010). I also think that the short poem has metaphor in it.
At first the poem doesn’t seem to have any of the traditional flow and rhymes at the end of the lines, but he does show internal rhyming within the lines. Stafford is a poet who does not follow traditional formatting within is work. The title of the poem is “Ask Me,” any reader may think “Ask Me what?” But the title speaks for itself as you read on. His poem at first is a little unclean on what is really being asked and to whom. The first line says “Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made” (Stafford).
Robert Frost is saying that he had come to a “fork in the road” or a decision in his life and he can only chose one path to take. Frost isn’t telling us who or what is at the end of the road or where he will end up once he takes it, maybe he wants you to compare this poem to your own life and you decide what is at the end. In the line “And be one traveler, long I stood” (3), Frost could be inferring that you may have important and influential people in your life, but at the end of the day you are going through your journey alone. No one can make the tough life decisions for you, have to think for yourself. “And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth” (4-5) Frost is looking down at the decision he has to make.
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Also the speaker seems to be distressed as of which road to go down as he stood for a ‘long’ time contemplating which path to go down as he could not be ‘one traveller’ this makes the reader acknowledge that you can’t be at two places at once and that sometimes you have to sacrifice opportunities. The speaker seems to show regret and self-pity of their decision as they are ‘sorry’ they can’t travel both roads this creates a damp mood as they may be disappointed and unsatisfied with the road they decided to take which implies to the reader that despite the fact we a free to choose what paths and situations we get our lives into we have to deal with the unanticipated consequences weather good or bad. After the build of which path to take the speaker then makes the decision to take the other path as its ‘as just as fair’ suggesting that he made his decisions based upon looks as the other road may not have been as pretty, this gives the reader an insight to the narrators personality as they could be someone who judges
When “Though” is used it is almost like it is natural that the “night was made for loving” and that Byron is going against the will of nature itself if he does not love. Finally, the word “Yet” acts as a final sending off for the wants of Byron, when it is used in the penultimate line of the poem. It carries with it an idea that the good times will never return and it is possibly this word which is burdened with the greatest amount of lamentation in the entire poem. Thus, Byron’s word choice suggests an idea of grief to the reader. Lord Byron has also used cataloguing in the second stanza, by using “And” in three consecutive lines.