How do you paraphrase the poem starts with Two roads diverged in a yellow wood?

Answer 1

Don't know how to answer your question but know where the line comes from.

Awesome poem.

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Robert Frost (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. 1. 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

Answer 2

The poem begins with a traveler confronting a choice between two paths diverging in a forest. The traveler ponders the decision, knowing they cannot take both paths, and reflects on the uncertainty of the future. Ultimately, the traveler chooses the less-traveled path, emphasizing the significance of choices in shaping one's experiences.

Answer 3

It is not a literary device aside from metaphor, as a matter of fact. It's a plain statement of "I was in the woods. There were two roads." The metaphor being that the woods are life. The two roads are choices only one of which you will be able to take, and only one of which you'll ever know the end result. You won't ever know what would've happened had you taken the other road.

Answer 4

The poem is saying that the person walking in the yellow wood came across to a fork in the path and chose to go one way rather than the other. According to Robert Frost (I heard him say this), who wrote the poem, the words "I took the road less travelled by and that made all the difference" means only that because the person chose to go one the less travelled path, things turned out differently for him/her (not better or worse, just differently) than they would have if the he/she had chosen to take the other path. There was no greater risk taken by having chosen the one less travelled by and there was no greater reward earned as a result of following that path. Things just turned out differently.

Answer 5

The conflict in Frost's poem can be summed up in the following sentence: Every individual must decide whether to take the "path of least resistance" in their life, taking on the same goals as many other people and not striking out on their own, or taking much more personal risk by facing a more difficult and challenging set of goals that ultimately may be more rewarding. Frost himself, at the end of the poem, says that he took the challenging "path" (that of being a poet) ,which made a difference in his life.

Answer 6

The Road Not Taken - 1916

Answer 7

Robert frost