“two roads diverged in a wood, and i— / i took the one less.

Websuch has been the case for robert frost’s widely beloved poem from 1915, “the road not taken. ” regularly recited at important rites of passage, the poem has repeatedly been.

Neither of the roads is less traveled by.

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Webthe road not taken two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry i could not travel both and be one traveler, long i stood and looked down one as far as i could to where it bent.

I shall be telling this with a sigh.

Webyet knowing how way leads on to way, i doubted if i should ever come back.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry i could not travel both.

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Webboth paths look fairly similar, but one, which is slightly more overgrown with grass, appears to be less traveled.

The speaker in the poem, faced with a choice.

The traveler decides to take that road.

Webalthough commonly interpreted as a celebration of rugged individualism, the poem actually contains multiple different meanings.

Taking the final couplet into consideration as well, the poem is.

Webthe road not taken.

Webthe difficulty with “the road not taken” starts, appropriately enough, with its title.

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Two roads diverged in a.

We cannot justifiably ignore the reverberations they send through the easy aphorisms of the last two stanzas.

And be one traveler, long i stood.