Summary of Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
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Summarize the meaning of the poem below focusing on the concluding stanza.
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; 5
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, 10
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. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood and Iâ?"
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
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In this solution, I list several possible meanings for the concluding lines of Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken".
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Frost's poem can have several interpretations. It is certainly about choices and taking risks. The number of interpretations comes into play when you decide whether the speaker is satisfied with his choice. Your interpretation depends on how you read the last lines of the poem.
One interpretation you could make of the poem is that the speaker is ...
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