Our choices shape our journey and mould our ways.

The poet wants to convey that the choices we make has bearing on our life. Whether right or wrong, the choice he made will have a significant impact on his life. While doing so, he will sigh, either with relief that he made the right choice, or with regret that he made the wrong choice. in after many years gone in life, the poet says, he will be telling others about the choice he made, meaning that he will talk about what decision in life he took. It is very difficult to pass the judgement on the spur of the moment. The poet does not seem to be very certain about the happy prospects of his choice. Stanza 4 I shall be telling this with a sigh Here the saying ‘Man proposes, God disposes’ is revealed as he wants to come back and try the other option also by traveling on the previously left road but doubts linger if he would be able to do so because of uncertainty of life-journey. The poet’s decision and doubts symbolise the uncertainty of future which affects the exercise of options available to man. He observes, that he will probably never pass this way again, as one path leads to another, and thus will never have an opportunity to take the other road. But he had doubt if he would ever come back to walk on it. The poet confirms his decision that he left the first road because he would use it on some other day. The leaves had not been blackened by the steps of the travellers. They both are covered with the fallen leaves. Stanza 3 And both that morning equally layīoth the roads lay in front of the poet. He believes in following his own will and volition. This stanza suggests that he has an independent spirit and does not wish to follow the crowd or the established norms. But then he realises and modifies his thoughts in a comparative mode by saying that as far as the question of their being worn due to walking of the travellers is concerned, both of them had worn in the same way The poet selects the other (second) road The second road presented better claim because it was grassy and had not worn off due to walking of the travellers. Stanza 2 Then took the other, just as fair,

The undergrowth here represents the unknown world. He found that the first road has bent in the undergrowth (bush). Then he finds himself in a dilemma (not able to decide) about the choice of roads. The poet first thought of travelling both the roads and then discarded the idea. Here the two roads symbolize two ways to go in life. The road then bent and disappeared from his eyes in bushes and the undergrowth. He stood there for a long time and looked at the road down as far as he could. The poet feels sorry that being the lonely traveller, he could not walk on both the roads at the same time. Here two roads are separated in two different directions. It is seemingly autumn time and the poet is standing at a junction in a yellow forest. The Road Not Taken Poem Explanation in Hindi Meanings of the Words and Phrasesĭiverge-to separate and go in a different direction Wood-forest Traveller-a person who travels Fair-nice Claim-demand, tell or ask as a right to have or own Better Claim - showing that it is comparatively better Grassy-full of grass Though-in spite of something Lay-placed horizontally Trodden-walked over Know-to have information Doubt-uncertainty Age-a very long time Difference-a point or way in which people or things are not same.Įxplanation of the Poem Stanza 1 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

Road not taken summary each stanza