Poetry Analysis

Poetry Analysis

Robert Frost's classic poem, The Road Not Taken, was first published in the year 1913. The poem is in the form of a soliloquy where the poet, standing in the woods, is confronted with two diverging roads. The poet must now choose which of the two roads to take as both seem to be equally worn. After giving it much thought, he chooses the one 'less travelled by', leaving the deserted road for another day perhaps.

However, realizing how the road taken by him would inevitably confront him with countless similar diverging roads and choices, he concedes that life may ...