After this line, Frost seems to contradict his own judgement, when he says “Though as for that the passing here / Had worn them really about the same.” He appears to say that both paths were equally worn by the people who have passed by so it would not make that much of a difference anyway.įrost continues to contradict himself. Frost then rejects that aspiration as impractical, when he says he chooses “the one less travelled by,” suggesting that his decision is not to follow the crowd but to take the different path. This could be a metaphor for wishing to avoid taking decisions and for having an ideal of having both ways, which is impractical as he can’t travel in both paths at the same time. He wishes he could somehow be able to “travel both” routes. It is about making decisions in life and having to choosing between two separate paths that are given to us one easier than the other, and the other more unknown and exciting.Īt the beginning of the poem the setting is given when Frost says he is in the“yellow woods” where he encounters a fork road through the woods. “The Road Not Taken” is about choosing paths and taking decisions. This poem like many of Frost’s other poems is a poem that does not a require a large amount of explanation in terms of the phrases and words used, due to Frost’s intentions of making the poem as simple and understandable as possible. The words are easy enough for a child to read but the meaning is so complex that there have been many university level scholarly debates done about the meaning behind this poem. The reason for such popularity of this poem is largely based on the poem’s simplicity and of its symbolism. It is one of his most well known and popular poems. "The Road not Taken" written by Robert Frost is a lyric poem.
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