![]() ![]() But the limitation is that he hadn’t the idea about the right one. If he knew the road which he was looking for he might take the Road without any doubt. One thing must be noted here that, both Roads are unknown and uncertain and aren’t seemed to be same to the poet (the speaker). For limitation, our people are unable to do something. In everyday’s life, it is must whether to choose path A that the poet describes as ‘trodden’ or to choose path B that poet says ‘not taken’ as you cannot go down both. In a deeper sense, it is not a road which man always uses to move one place to another, it is life’s path in which a man is chosen to go on and reach his goal. You may take the poem with the problem of making a decision, probably right and perfect we face regularly in our private or public life. But it has several meanings and complexity. “The Road Not Taken” may seem to be easy and simple for the first time reading. We could go on and on worshipping how famous the poem is, you have already known. “The Road Not Taken” is cited left and right by many inspirational writers and everyday people even after a century it was published. In American schools, this poem is most taught poem along with another famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. It was published in Frost’s collection “Mountain Interval” in 1916. The poem “The Road Not Taken” is one of the famous poems of the twentieth-century writer, Robert Frost. If you haven’t gone through “The Road Not Taken” yet, you will absolutely get a new scent when you do. READ ALSO: Summary and Critical appreciation of Island Poem by Nissim Ezekiel and its Questions and Answers President Kidney called Robert Frost “the great American poet of our time’, and describe him thus: “His life and his art summed up the essential qualities of the New England ” he loved so much: the fresh delight in Nature, the plainness of speech, the canny wisdom, and the deep, underlying insight into the human soul.” He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times, being the only poet ever to achieve this four-fold distinction. Frost won many honours in the course of time.His first poem appeared in his High School Bulletin when he was fifteen.Though he differs in his attitude towards Nature from most of the Nature poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, or Shelley and Keats, he shows an abundance of evidence for us to regard him as a poet of Nature.Lionel Trilling referred to Frost’s sonnet ‘Design’ and ‘Department’ and called Frost a terrifying poet.Some critics think that he was essentially a tradition poet.He was absolutely a modern poet though some critics don’t think that.Robert Frost was an American poet of the 20th century.Frost died in January 1963, after a major surgical operation, at the age of 88.Introduction and Stanza-Wise Summary of ‘ The Road Not Taken’ ![]()
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