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 what is the summary of poem road not taken?

 in this classic and famously popular Robert Frost poem, the diverging roads are pretty similar; the speaker chose the one less worn, as “having perhaps the better claim,” but three times we are told that the difference was negligible: “just as fair”; “Though as for that, the passing there / Had worn them really about the same”; “equally.”

Although a reason is given for the choice (“it was grassy and wanted wear”), it would seem that there was a doubt that there really was a clear basis for choosing. Certainly there is no moral basis. One may feel that had the speaker chosen the other path, the ending of the poem would have been the same; that is, he would remember the alternative path and would fantasize that he might someday return to take it, and would at the same time know that he would not relearn. And so he would find that it too “has made all the difference.”

The sigh imagined in the last stanza is not to be taken as an expression of regret for a life wasted, but as a semi-comic picture of the speaker envisioning himself as an old man, wondering how things would have turned out if he had made a different choice—which is not at all to imply a rejection of the choice he did make.

Don't take the poem too seriously and to press it too hard for a moral, for example, that Frost says we should choose the “less traveled,” the unconventional, path. The first two lines of the last stanza are playful in their tone.

Frost wrote the poem after returning to the United States from England. In England, his friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas liked to take Frost on woodland walks and then fretted that perhaps he should have chosen a different path, which would have revealed different flora. This bit of biography does not prove that the poem cannot refer to moral choice, but it may help to ease up on the highly moral interpretations that many people are prone to make.

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hi ,here's the summary of 'the road not taken'

One day,while traveling alone the poet reached a point where the road diverted into two. the poet could not take both the roads.he had to make a choice and to take one road.it took him some time to make the choice.he looked down one of the roads as far as he could see till it bent.At last he took the other road which appeared to be fair.The road was a little less frequented though actually there was no such difference for "the passing there had worn them really about the same."

Both the roads on that fine morning lay fresh with the leaves.No human steps had  trodden there and turned them black.The poet wanted to keep the first road for another day.He knew it very well that road leads on to road.Yet he was in doubt if he would have to come back.

The poet will always tell it with a sigh somewhere and in time to come that the two roads diverged in wood that he took the less frequented one.The choice was important .It was the choice which determined his destiny and made him a poet different from others. His future career was determined by this choice. This is how this choice made all the difference.

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The Road not Taken is related to our real life situations. Sometimes, we face difficulties in life and cannot decide what to do in that situation. We would like to choose both paths, but it is not possible. We stand and look at the different situations, and it is difficult to decide to choose one path. So,, we should think carefully, because it is our life. We think after choosing one path we will choose another path, but we doubted we would be able to, because in life one thing leads to another and time is short. Then sometimes we decide to choose the path many others have not traveled. It means at certain points in our life we decide to follow our own path, and not the one that we think we should follow. We want to become different to others so we decided to choose different path, but it may be harmful for us and then we feel sorry for ourselves. It's those times in life when we make a leap of faith, and put negative thoughts out of our mind. When we trust our instincts, suddenly we start living the life we were meant to live. It's a poem about finding our own way; listen to our own voice, and our own path in life. When we start to bend into your instincts and follow them our life becomes uniquely our own and when we are on an authentic path and not living according to someone else's ideals, we have a chance to be our most successful. It is important to be careful with the time frame. We should be very careful to choose any path, because we cannot know how our choice will affect our future.

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What is the answer for the question no.8 in the poem road not taken".

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The Road not Taken is related to our real life situations. Sometimes, we face difficulties in life and cannot decide what to do in that situation. We would like to choose both paths, but it is not possible. We stand and look at the different situations, and it is difficult to decide to choose one path. So,, we should think carefully, because it is our life. We think after choosing one path we will choose another path, but we doubted we would be able to, because in life one thing leads to another and time is short. Then sometimes we decide to choose the path many others have not traveled. It means at certain points in our life we decide to follow our own path, and not the one that we think we should follow. We want to become different to others so we decided to choose different path, but it may be harmful for us and then we feel sorry for ourselves. It's those times in life when we make a leap of faith, and put negative thoughts out of our mind. When we trust our instincts, suddenly we start living the life we were meant to live. It's a poem about finding our own way; listen to our own voice, and our own path in life. When we start to bend into your instincts and follow them our life becomes uniquely our own and when we are on an authentic path and not living according to someone else's ideals, we have a chance to be our most successful. It is important to be careful with the time frame. We should be very careful to choose any path, because we cannot know how our choice will affect our future.

hi ,here 's the summary of 'the road not taken '

One day,while traveling alone the poet reached a point where the road diverted into two. the poet could not take both the roads.he had to make a choice and to take one road.it took him some time to make the choice.he looked down one of the roads as far as he could see till it bent.At last he took the other road which appeared to be fair.The road was a little less frequented though actually there was no such difference for "the passing there had worn them really about the same."

Both the roads on that fine morning lay fresh with the leaves.No human steps had trodden there and turned them black.The poet wanted to keep the first road for another day.He knew it very well that road leads on to road.Yet he was in doubt if he would have to come back.

The poet will always tell it with a sigh somewhere and in time to come that the two roads diverged in wood that he took the less frequented one.The choice was important .It was the choice which determined his destiny and made him a poet different from others. His future career was determined by this choice. This is how this choice made all the difference.

hope this helps!

cheers

thumbs up plzz..

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what was decesion  of the poet
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"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative and autobiographical poem consisting of four stanzas of iambic tetrameter (though it ishypermetric by one beat – there are nine syllables per line instead of the strict eight required for tetrameter) and is one of Frost's most popular works. Besides being among the best known poems, some claim that it is one of the most misunderstood.

Frost's biographer Lawrance Thompson is also cited as saying that the speaker of the poem is "one who habitually wastes energy in regretting any choice made: belatedly but wistfully he sighs over the attractive alternative rejected."

While a case could be made for the sigh being one of satisfaction, given the critical support of the 'regret' analysis it seems fair to say that this poem is about the human tendency to look back and attribute blame to minor events in one's life, or to attribute more meaning to things than they may deserve.


Frost spent the years 1912 to 1915 in England, where among his acquaintances was the writer Edward Thomas. Thomas and Frost became close friends and took many walks together. After Frost returned to New Hampshire in 1915, he sent Thomas an advance copy of "The Road Not Taken."[1] The poem was intended by Frost as a gentle mocking of indecision, particularly the indecision that Thomas had shown on their many walks together. Frost later expressed chagrin that most audiences took the poem more seriously than he had intended; in particular, Thomas took it seriously and personally, and it provided the last straw in Thomas' decision to enlist in World War I. Thomas was killed two years later in the Battle of Arras.

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Summary of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
One day, the poet Robert Frost, travelling all alone, reaches a point where the road forks into two. He faces a dilemma as to which road to take to continue his journey. He is unable to decide which road to follow. He pauses for a long time. He gives a careful thought to which path he should follow. The he decides to choose that road which seems to be less traveled. He feels it will make all the difference to his future. he decides to save the other road for another day, thought he knows that he will never get a chance to go back to it. Later, he wishes that he had taken the other road.
                      The poet feels that after ages from now he would be telling about his decision with a sigh. He would tell how the less frequented road, and that had made all the difference in his life.
                      The poet presented the difficulty or making a choice in life. We cannot travel all the roads available to us. We have to make a choice. The dilemma faced by the poet in making his choice is the dilemma that we all face at some point in your life. We have all have or had to make a choice. Only the future will reveal weather the choice was right or wrong. But can't go back to revert our choice. Choices and decisions are like steps that carry us forward. We can only look back and repent at out choices.
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