![]() ![]() He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He famously observed of free verse, which was favoured by many modernist poets, that it was ‘like playing tennis with the net down’. And yet he didn’t belong to any particular movement: unlike his contemporaries William Carlos Williams or Wallace Stevens he was not a modernist, preferring more traditional modes and utilising a more direct and less obscure poetic language. In Robert Frosts poem The Road Not Taken, Frost presents the idea of man facing the difficult unalterable predilection of a moment and a lifetime. ![]() Robert Frost (1874-1963) is regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. You can listen to Frost reading his poem here. 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. We have to choose as we cannot taste both at a. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. If you found this analysis of ‘The Road Not Taken’ helpful, you can discover more about Robert Frost’s poem here. The Road Not Taken is a psychological battle that drives humans always. ![]() I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I. Indeed, Frost’s poem may even have been what inspired Thomas to make up his mind and finally choose which ‘road’ to follow: he chose war over America, and ‘The Road Not Taken’ is, perhaps, what forced his hand. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems Quotes Showing 1-21 of 21. Frost found Thomas to be an indecisive man, and after he’d written ‘The Road Not Taken’ but before it was published, he sent it to Thomas, whose indecisiveness even extended to uncertainty over whether to follow Frost to the United States or to enlist in the army and go and fight in France.įrost intended the poem to be a semi-serious mockery of people like Thomas, but it was taken more seriously by Thomas, and by countless readers since. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. ![]()
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