The road not taken Flashcards
The Road Not Taken’ was written by
Robert Frost
The speaker stood at the intersection of?
Two roads.
The speaker felt sorry because?
He could not travel on both roads.
The speaker took the road….
less traveled on.
the poem represents?
Choices we make in life.
The entire poem is?
A metaphor
What did the speaker see in the yellow wood?
Two paths diverging in different directions.
How was one path different from the other?
Both paths are the same, but the speaker thinks he chose the less traveled path.
Which path had been walked on that morning before the poet traveled on one?
None of them.
When the speaker chose one of the paths what did he hope to do?
To come back and to try the other path.
In the line “Oh I kept the first for another day! “, “the first” refers to ?
The road which he did not chose.
Frost uses the image of two diverging roads to symbolize?
Choices we need to make in life.
According to the speaker, the second road has “the better claim” because it…
had been less traveled on.
This poem might have special relevance for you if you…
have to make an important decision in your life.
What does the speaker decide to do?
Take the other road.
What do you think is the meaning of the sentence: “yet knowing how way leads on to way”?
How in life, every decision you make will leads you to another decision.
“Frost uses nature as a background. He usually begins a poem with an observation of something in nature and then moves toward a connection to some human situation.” – The Pastoral Art of Robert Frost by John F. Lynen. How this sentence is expressed in the poem?
The poem starts by a description of nature: a wood in autumn. The wood has two roads, and the speaker talks about which road to choose. The choice of roads connects to situations where people have to make decisions and can’t come back to the same point in life.
The traveler could not see where the road was going because…
it wasn’t straight and the grass was messy.
Why does the speaker say he will “be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence”?
When he looks back at his life and the decisions he made, he may be sorry / happy about his decision / about the road he took.
