Poetry Assignment

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Answer the questions about the poem, "The Road Not Taken" in complete sentences. Please type your answers out. See below for a copy of the poem.

1. Choose one stanza (paragraph) of the poem and explain what it’s about in your own words. Use quotes directly from the stanza to support your answe

2. What is this poem about? Explain your answer completely. Use quotes directly from the poem to support your answer.

3. Did this poem use symbolism? Please explain specific examples where symbolism was used.




Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (1915)
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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 there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.