The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, USA in the year 1874. In 1982, he left school and started working in a mill. He then became a school teacher. Thereafter he became a reporter and an editor of a weekly. He joined Harvard and studied the classics for two years. Again, he became a reporter and a teacher of English and Psychology.

He used simple colloquial languages of the country folks. His ambition was to write everyday speech of New Englanders to capture their voice with all its rich intonations.

Rober Frost is perhaps the best loved among American poets. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his poetry four times in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943.

The poem Road Not Taken was published in 1916 in a volume of poetry called Mountain Interval Although we tend to think of it as an American poem it was actually written in England Summary In the poem The Road Not Taken the road symbolizes our life The poem is an autobiography written in 1912 when the poet had to take the momentous decision of leaving his country US to settle in London Stanza 1 Once the poet was walking down a road and then there was a diversion there were two different paths and he had to choose one out of them The poet says that as he was one person he could travel on one ...

1.
Describe the two roads that the poet comes across.
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Which road does the speaker choose? Why did he choose that?
3.
Which road would you choose? Why? Give reasons for your choice.
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Does the speaker seem happy about his decision?
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The poet says "I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference." What is 'the difference' that the poet mentions?
6.
Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem, The Road Not Taken.

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The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

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