summary for the poem Road not Taken by Robert Frost.

 

Road not Taken

-        Robert Frost.

Road not Taken is a famous poem written by the American poet Robert Frost. In this poem the narrator describes himself as a traveler while traveling on the road of life.

In this poem the poet is traveling through the woods. He looks at the grassy road diverging in yellow wood. He finds that the second path is little better than the first road.  He claims that it may be better to go on the one who has not used much travelled.

Both of the paths equally lay there without having been walked on so far. He says no step had trodden them black so no step had made them dark with footsteps and mud and being pressed down like leaves pressed into the mud so both paths are untaken this morning anyway. He kept the first road for another day.

He comes to a point where the road splits into two parts. These two parts indicate the choices that come in one's life. one of them is the easiest option whereas the other option is comparatively difficult. the narrator chooses the toughest option of the two and decides to try the easiest one some other day later he doubts if he should return back and choose the easiest one but at the end of his travel and years later, he remembers the choice he made he concludes that the choice he made has changed his life.