Robert Frost.
Recently in English we learned about the famous American poet, Robert Lee Frost. He was a very interesting man. He wrote his first poem when he was 20 years old. Frost won a Pulitzer Prize for literature four times. When he was 86 years old, Robert was asked to read one of his poems for the inauguration of John .F. Kennedy. Many of his poems are about nature and the landscapes. His most famous poems are “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Road Not Taken”. The poem we read was a metaphorical poem. A metaphor is used to compare people or things to something else. We studied the poem “The Road Not Taken” to see what it meant. The two roads in the poem are meant to symbolise the crossroads he had met in his own life.
You can read the poem below and draw your own interpretation of it.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
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, 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 travelled by,
And that has made all the difference