The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Explanation and Discussion

The Road Not Taken is one of the most known, read and appreciated poems of the age. We remember this poem as a common connect with many. The poem is part of the CBSE - Grade 9 English syllabus. I am presenting a small explanation for my students.While you read the text - it unfolds the meaning swiftly for you.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo 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 thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.TEXT Source - Poetry Foundation