pls help!!!!!!!!! can somebody explain to me this 'TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED'?

Answer 1

IT means when your given two options, for example staying in your home or uprooting yourself to move to spain for a job you dont take the one that is most comfortable and easy by staying where you are you move to spain.

Answer 2

are u talking about the poem written by robert frost??


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;

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,

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.

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.

Explanation and Interpretations

A popular explanation of this poem is that it is a call for the reader to forge his or her own way in life and not follow the path that others have already taken.

However, it is also possible to read it as an ironic statement against such notions.[1] Frost is said to have written the poem as a sly joke on his friend Edward Thomas, and to have warned audiences "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem—very tricky."[2] Frost and Thomas were two of the Dymock Poets who met and wrote together in the village of Dymock, Gloucestershire, England during a brief period leading up to World War I. The woods around Dymock where the two poets walked were carpeted with wild daffodils—a "yellow wood"—each spring. Thomas was keen to show his American friend the local views and flora, but had a habit of regretting the routes he had chosen for their walks.

Although this poem is often cited as a source for inspiration and encouraging individuality it contains key contradictions and ambiguities. For example, lines 9-10 state, "[t]hough as for that the passing there/Had worn them really about the same". So, even though it is often read and taught that the speaker chooses "the one less traveled by," the speaker of the poem contradicts himself by saying the roads were ultimately the same. This is further illuminated in line 11's declaration that, "And both that morning equally lay" (emphasis added).

The misreading that the speaker takes "the one less traveled by" is the first of two popular misinterpretations. According to Frost, the key to the poem is found in line 16, "I shall be telling this with a sigh". Also, the ambiguity of the closing lines, "I took the one less traveled by, /And that has made all the difference." A close reading of this highly anthologized poem must admit that the speaker leaves the reader wondering whether the speaker means his choice has made a good or bad difference in the speaker's life. Also, why is the speaker telling it with a sigh?

One might, looking at the title ("The Road Not Taken"), come to the conclusion that he sighs because in retrospect, he wishes he had taken the other road, thinking his life may have been better somehow. Still, others interpret the title as an emphasis that he is taking the less travelled path. It is the "Road Not Taken" by most other people, and he is the exception.

Some believe readers must acknowledge that though the poem closes in ambiguity, it is clear the initial choice of the road taken has made all the difference, for because of that choice, "way leads on to way". Still, others suggest that the line "And that has made all the difference" is meant to be one of jest or sarcasm. Thus the traveler (ie, Frost) is trying to tell the reader that the most important issue is simply to choose and therefore not become lost trying to decide whether to take this or that road. The important issue, then, is to make the decision and then follow through.

There are some who suggest that the poem is, in fact, about how when we recount our lives—especially those events that we believe either reflect or shape our identities—we confabulate, adding meaning to them.[3] If we are to read Frost as a modernist or a realist, then this would make sense, as the application of symbolism to this choice in the woods would be a romantic gesture

Answer 3

It means not necesarily doing what other people do - if there were two roads to get somewhere, and everyone went down one (making it the road more travelled) then you went down the other one you would be taking the road less travelled, and not doing what everyone else did.

Answer 4

You would have to be a bit more specific but the book is a spiritual enlightening book. Doing the right thing is not done very often, especially spiritually, thus the name. And a good many people do not know HOW to do the right thing, it takes them awhile to find the right path.

Peace.

Answer 5

"Taking the road less traveled" means to boldly go where you haven't before such as taking risks.

Answer 6

It means doing something in a more unique and creative and different way, going in a direction that is not considered mainstream.

Answer 7

It is simple it means taking a short-cut.

Answer 8

not doing wht everyone else is doing. making new discoveries.