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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Frost, Robert
Frost, Robert
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Poems From Mountain Interval
The Road Not Taken: Summary:
One of Frost's commonest subjects is the choice-the poet faced with two
roads, two ideas, two possibilities of action. This poem deals with the choice
between two roads, and with the results of the choice which the poet makes.
He gives the scene in the first stanza: There are two paths in a wood and he
stands at the crossroads, sorry that he cannot be two people at the same
time, and take both directions. He looks down one road until it bends and
disappears. In the second stanza he tells us that he ...
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