They will eventually be far from the two original choices. ”Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” The speaker is saying that they will most likely not be able to come back to the other road, because the path they takes will lead to other paths, and then to other paths, and so on. ”Two roads diverged in a wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood.” This means that they stood for a long time, contemplating which path they should take. “And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.” This means that both paths had not yet been muddied by footsteps. Teachers may choose to have students analyze different parts of the poem to expand the assignment. Students will make a 1 cell storyboard, depicting the meaning of the part that they have chosen. Students should think about what Frost means to say in these lines, in more “kid friendly” terms. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take andin retrospectoften lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. ![]() ![]() This poem highlights those moments in life when it is necessary to take a firm decision without enough information. The two roads symbolize two directions in life to follow. ![]() It has both literal and metaphorical meanings. For this activity, students will analyze a part of "The Road Not Taken. The road not takenThe road not taken class 9The road not taken Robert Frostthe road not taken,the road not taken robert frost,the road not taken class. Robert Frost wrote The Road Not Taken as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. The Road Not Taken is a poem about the struggles of the speaker to decide which one of the two roads he must choose.
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