Saturday, August 27, 2011

What is a line-by-line summary of "The Road Not Taken"?Please give me a detailed line by line explanation so that i can understand it better

1-There is a fork in  a wood."yellow wood" means that the season in the forest is autumn."roads diverged" it is a metaphor for choice. 


2-The poet now says that he cannot travel both the roads at the same time.


3-In this line the poet says that i have to travel one suitable road for me.


4-In this line the poet tells us that i looked at one road for sometime as far as he could.


5-In this line the poet is using a metaphor for future as it says "bent in the undergrowth".by this he means that he can see some consequences of the future.


6-7 Now he has chosen a the other road and in his eyes this road was better.


8-9 the poet choosed this road because this road was grassy and was less traveled.he thinks both roads were the same.


10-11 in this lines the poet says that both roads were alike and were the same. 


12-13 The one road which i choosed had been used less by travelers.he kept the first road so he would come back some day and try it.


14-15 he means by these lines that, one way is the key for another way and would he ever return to this place again.


16-17 poet tells us that in future  after many ages , either he regret or accept his decision its not clear because he uses the word sigh.


18-19 in this line poet remembers his past that once there were two roads and i took the grassy and less traveled one.


20-The poet says that my one decisions had affected my future and that's why now i am different than others

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