One may always look heaven ward and aspire for the stars but one must never forget that one has to walk on the earth. Man’s vision encompasses more than what he can get in his arms. One must hope to get the best of everything.
He learns painfully that man cannot have things all his own way he is not only bound to make a choice but also that the choice he makes is irrevocable.
We notice that when the road forks, the narrator regrets that he possibly cannot travel both roads because he is ‘one traveler’. He does not believe that man must learn to accept and live with his limitations. When he has made his choice he wistfully yearns for the alternative which he has been forced to reject. Very unselfconsciously, the poet reveals himself to us as one who is Hamlet-like, who is too intelligent and conscious to do anything without pondering on the pros and cons of it. But as destiny had it, it was the right road for Frost, the road he was bound to take. The road that Frost took was not only a different road, but it was a very lonely road, very few people took to it. The poet’s difference is a characteristic part of him and is ingrained in him-even before he launched on his career as a poet. The poet has an intuition that one day he will look back in retrospect and perhaps be glad that he took the less frequented road. He had to suffer in the beginning though, but ultimately he was crowned with success in his career. Then he took the risky decision of following the career of a poet. Frost’s life was very unsuccessful in the beginning. The life of the poet amply illustrates the foretelling made in the poem. Though it was risky, it bought him his desired success. The poet chose the way in an unusual manner. It was against the normal or usual way of choosing between alternatives people usually choose the more common way that is the way chosen by most people. The poet expressed his satisfaction at the fact that his choice of the untraded road led to the success that he achieved. What made him different from others was his choice of the risky road, the less travelled one. Still he could feel that he could foretell about his future success. He did not feel sure that he would ever be able to come back to the place of his starting the journey along the untraded road, or where the road would take him to.ĭespite the doubt, the poet took the risky road, the less frequented one.
The road indicated the beginning of a maze leading to an uncertain future. The poet underwent the wavering doubt while choosing the less trodden of the two roads at a bifurcation. If he took the less frequented one, he could not be so much sure of where it would lead him to.
If he had followed the more frequented one, then he could be somewhat assured that it would take him to a safe destination though that would be a common one. After some deliberations he decided to follow the less frequented road though he did not know where the less frequented road would take him to. That is, more people used that road, than the other one. On viewing both the roads, he saw that one of the two was more frequented than the other. He too stood at the bifurcation, pondering over which road to take. He felt himself to be in a dilemma because he could not follow both the roads as he was a single person. He stood at a fork in a wood that means, he saw that his road bifurcated from the point at which he arrived. Once the poet was passing through yellow wood. The poem mainly deals with the poet’s decision when faced with the problem of having to choose one out of the two. He was wise in choosing the road, for he ultimately succeeded. Was the poet wise in choosing the road not frequented by people? What do you think?Īnswer: In the poem, “The Road not Taken” the poet Robert Frost has showed a dilemma which he faced when he had to choose one road out of two. Discuss the dilemma that the poet faced when the poet had to choose one road out of two.
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