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The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is about a traveler facing a decision of which path to take in a yellow wood. He cannot choose and rationalizes his choice based on the appearance of one road, but later regrets not knowing where the other would have led. The poem suggests that in life we often hesitate at crossroads and wonder about choices not made. It highlights themes of uncertainty, individualism, and how the choices we make can shape our futures in unknown ways.

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Assignment 5 Short Answer Question

The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is about a traveler facing a decision of which path to take in a yellow wood. He cannot choose and rationalizes his choice based on the appearance of one road, but later regrets not knowing where the other would have led. The poem suggests that in life we often hesitate at crossroads and wonder about choices not made. It highlights themes of uncertainty, individualism, and how the choices we make can shape our futures in unknown ways.

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The road not taken – Robert Frost

Part A
1.Where is the I- speaker in the poem standing? Why is he there?
Between two roads in a forest.
2. What is his problem?
He doesn’t know which road he should choose .
3. What makes him so hesitant in his decision?
He doesn’t know which road will lead to a better outcome.
4. What does he decide to do? Explain his decision?
He chooses a road based on its appearance to rationalize his decision
& suprress the feeling of uncertainty.
5. How does he feel after making the decision? Why does he feel it
that way?
The speaker realizes the inaccuracy in his previous judgement
about the road due to his inner conflicts over which road will have a
better outcome.
6. What is the symbolic meaning of the poem?
- Diverging roads
- The road less traveled
7. What human traits are suggested by the first stanza of the poem?
Indecisive, hesitant.
8. What is the theme of the poem?
- Nature of Choices & Uncertainty
- Individualism & Nonconformity
9. In what way does the poem suggest that Frost was a non-
conformist?

Part B
1. Do you think the line, “Yet knowing how way leads on to way” is
fatalistic in tone? Explain your answer.
“The road not taken”-writen by Rober Frost can be seen as a story of
how he explores the concept of Lifes choices and their effect on us by
using an extended metaphore and presenting it to the responder in the
form of a poem. Throughout 2 lines above, Frost describes the feeling
of hesitant whether he want to re-make the uncertant decisions,
moreover, conveying the natural meaning of life’s choices. In my
perspective, I acquiesce with this statement.

2. Have you ever been in the same situation as that of the I-speaker in
the poem? What was it and why did you make that decision?
In the first sentence, Frost has implied a fact on our daily life,
throughtout his experience in previous stanzars. “way leads on to
way” is a image of infinity posibilities when the speaker chose to
walk on the road that he attempt to find some control and later
comfort over final destinations. In addtion, Frost imagined the
posibility that he could stop following the road he was on going,
instead he found an intersested with another path, which is also “as
just as fair”.

3. Do you think that the choices we make in life ultimately turn out to
be the right ones? Why or why not? Explain your answer.
Incontrast, the confession in the poem leads us-the reader
understanding the vacillation in the speaker’s decision and knowing
the speaker’s struggling for the feeling of regret. In fact, the felling of
regret and douptful showed up frequently in the poem, and in this
stanzar, the speaker continues to blame himself that he can not go
back to remake the decision. There are many defining decisions in our
life that shape our future and sometimes when we select an option in
these moments, they change the course of our life and there’s no
turning back.

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