Andy+-+English

=Poetry Analysis: The Road Not Taken=


 * 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; 5

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, 10

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. 15

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. 20


 * Consider This:** Frost's __The Road Not Taken__ is a very popular poem for classes to analyze. It has become a common assumption that the poem is a celebration of individuality and non-conformity. However, Robert Frost himself has called the poem "tricky", making one wonder if it does, in fact, have the message of self-reliance that one originally thought.


 * Your Assignment:** Using the poem above. Make a screencast of the poem, explaining whether you think the author is celebrating his individualism and non-conformity or not. What in the poem makes you think the way that you do?


 * You may copy the poem into a text program and change text size, color, etc.
 * Use the markup tools within Jing to illustrate what in the poem has led you to your conclusions.