Giving up the lure of other professions, he had chosen to pursue his literary passion despite many initial uncertainties. He knew that he might not return to the same spot again to traverse the path he was leaving behind.Īfter a few years, the speaker got to smell the sweet smell of success in the field of literature. On that occasion, walking over the second path with more grass over it fascinated him. He decided to come there some other day to walk along the path he was abandoning at that moment. But, an urge to experiment in life influenced his decision at that moment. He could have chosen the first path as both looked almost similarly used.
However, one of the two appeared more grassy and, hence, more enticing to an adventurous pedestrian. Dry leaves lay scattered on them pointing to the fact that hardly anyone had walked along them for quite some time.
MOOD OF THE ROAD NOT TAKEN PATCH
One path appeared to wind into a patch of undergrowth.Įxamining the two choices before him a little more, he found that both paths were under-used. He paused for sometime trying to decide which path to take. The speaker is strolling through a stretch of forest when he finds his path splitting into two separate ones. Perhaps, this poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written when he was in a reminiscent mood. But, by the time he wrote this poem, he had scaled great heights in the literary world. At one stage, he even worked as a cobbler. Frost’s own life was full of non-conventional decisions and a few twists and turns. Like many other English poets of his time, he adored Nature and loved delving into the many riddles it offered. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was an American who scaled great heights of popularity among his native Americans, but among the vast number of English poetry readers who read his poems for pleasure and as a pastime.
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost –Analysis
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