MARCEL'S POETRY PRESENTATION

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

by ROBERT FROST

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 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 there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In 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 sigh
Somewhere 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.


BIOGRAPHY

ROBERT FROST was born on march 26 1875 and died on January 29 1963. Frost's personal life is filled with grief and loss, Frost
was only 11 years old when in 1885 his father died of tuberculosis. In 1900 Frost's mother died of cancer, and in 1920, Frost
had to commit his younger sister to a mental hospital. 9 years later she also died. Mental illness ran in Frost's family, both
he and his mother suffered from depression and later on as he had his own family, 2 out of his 6 children died from suicide or
died in a mental hospital.


QUESTIONS

1) DESCRIBE ANY IMAGERY THAT YOU SEE IN THIS POEM.

2) WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE NARRATOR DECIDED TO TAKE THE ROAD THAT WAS LESS USED.

3) DESCRIBE WHY YOU THINK THAT THE NARRATOR SAYS,"I doubted if I should ever come back."

4) IN THE LAST LINES, " I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere 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."

WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT THE NARRATOR IS SAYING ABOUT HIS DECISION.

5) IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT IS THE ESSENTIAL MEANING OF THIS POEM.