The Road Not Taken
- Robert Frost
Introduction of the poem
It was first published in 1915 in the 'Atlantic' and later published as the first poem of the collection in 1916, "Mountain interval ". Robert Frost wrote this poem, to poke fun at his friend at "Edward Thomas".
Text
Two roads diverged in yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
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.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
At knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with the sign
Somewhere ages and hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all differences.
The Road Not Taken poetic device
Rhyme Scheme- abacb
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