
Or otherwise used in any way without the express written permission of the owner. The poet intends to walk on the first road but he couldnt do so because life does not offer multiple chances to choose. The material on this site may not be copied, reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, stored, altered, adapted, Purchasing books through any poet's Amazon links helps to support Your Daily Poem.

All rights reserved.Īs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Website Development by Practical Business SystemsĬontents of this web site and all original text and images therein are copyright © by Your Daily Poem. No prizes for guessing this is one of my own faves too, Jayne. With complete justice, one of the most widely-anthologised poems in the language! The universality and aptness of the central metaphor is spot on, and used with perfect poise and balance. "Stopping by Woods." says it all for me, but this one is a close second. Rural life is a consistent theme in Robert's poetry, as is simplistic language that is pleasing to the ear he felt strongly that poetry was best appreciated when read aloud. Robert's interest in poetry started early he published his first poem while in high school, sold his first poem at twenty, and by the age of forty, was one of America's best known and best loved poets. The poet described the same in the poem when the. Nonetheless, Robert spent most of his adult life teaching, receiving more than forty honorary degrees, along with four Pulitzer Prizes. The main theme of the poem is the dilemma that people face while making a choice between two or more things. Though he attended several prestigious colleges and universities, he never graduated from any of them.

here the other meaning is just to go back to taste the things he missed by going down the other road The nice thing about this poem is that it can mean different things to different people so I dont want to add any meaning that isnt there or omit some that is. Robert Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, but moved to Massachusetts with his family after his father's death in 1885 and, ultimately, lived in a number of homes and farms throughout New England. Translation of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost from English to Spanish. Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today! According to Google, then, The Road Not Taken was, as of mid-2012, at least four times as searched as the central text of the modernist era The Waste Land and at least twenty-four times as searched as the most anthologized poem by Ezra Pound.
