Roads: The Road Less Traveled

Two roads diverged in a wood; I took the one less traveled by. These two lines have become famous since they were written, and they are widely quoted. But their meaning is also widely misunderstood. The road not taken is a narrative poem by robert frost, first published in the august 1915 issue of the atlantic monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, mountain interval.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and i i took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry i could not travel both and be one traveler, 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; Robert frost wrote the road not taken as a joke for a friend, the poet edward thomas. 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. The road not taken. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry i could not travel both and be one traveler, 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.