THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - ROBERT FROST (Poet)

Poet

This well-known poem is about making choices, and the choices that shape us. Robert Frost is an American poet who writes simply, but insightfully, about common, ordinary experiences.

Poem

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not  travel  both

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth ;

Then took the other, 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 travelled by,

And that has made all the difference

Source: This topic is taken from NCERT TEXTBOOK