Or otherwise used in any way without the express written permission of the owner. The material on this site may not be copied, reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, stored, altered, adapted, Purchasing books through any poet's Amazon links helps to support Your Daily Poem. All rights reserved.Īs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Website Development by Practical Business SystemsĬontents of this web site and all original text and images therein are copyright © by Your Daily Poem. No prizes for guessing this is one of my own faves too, Jayne. With complete justice, one of the most widely-anthologised poems in the language! The universality and aptness of the central metaphor is spot on, and used with perfect poise and balance. "Stopping by Woods." says it all for me, but this one is a close second. Rural life is a consistent theme in Robert's poetry, as is simplistic language that is pleasing to the ear he felt strongly that poetry was best appreciated when read aloud. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. If our speaker is, as we suspect, at a fork in the road of his life, and not at an. Robert's interest in poetry started early he published his first poem while in high school, sold his first poem at twenty, and by the age of forty, was one of America's best known and best loved poets. This is where we start to think about the metaphorical meanings of this poem. Nonetheless, Robert spent most of his adult life teaching, receiving more than forty honorary degrees, along with four Pulitzer Prizes. Though he attended several prestigious colleges and universities, he never graduated from any of them. Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, but moved to Massachusetts with his family after his father's death in 1885 and, ultimately, lived in a number of homes and farms throughout New England. The poet describes his life experience and says that long ago he had two choices to make. In the poem, the road symbolizes our life and the path that we don’t choose is the road not taken. Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today! The Road Not Taken is a well-known poem about making choices in our life.
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