Poetry Help!!!!?

Question

Robert Frost once told a friend, "No matter which road you take, you'll always sigh and wish you'd taken another." Does "The Road Not Taken" support or contradict this statement? Support your answer.

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Answer 1

The poem SUPPORTS Frost's statement. In the poem, he says that "I shall be telling this with a sigh/ Somewhere ages and ages hence". The word "sigh" (= a slow deep breath) indicates "grief, sorrow, regret", both in the poem and in the poet's statement. In addition, "you'll always [...] wish you'd taken another" is also indicative of regret.

Answer 2

The poem actually contradicts that point and has been misinterpreted for years. During the description of the two roads the speaker says that they appeared to be identical but one was less used than the other ones (but he says he might have been just imagining it). He decides to take the one less traveled but realizes that the other path probably would have been the same. In the final stanza of the poem he says that when he is old he will tell everyone that the different path is what made all the difference even though it didn't. Don't go with the common interpretation or you sound dumb to anyone who knows anything about poetry.

Answer 3

The statment contradicts what he said in the peom because he said "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. "
Which he is saying that in his life he made one choice over another and now he will never know the other road he did not take like in the poem.

Answer 4

The poem contradicts the statement ... In the poem he mentions to have look both roads, and he takes the less traveled. But after he choses his road there is no wondering where the other one might have taken him if he would have choose it instead.

Good luck with your investigation!

Answer 5

It contradicts - though he would like to have taken both paths, he knew it likely that he would only ever travel one of them, and actively chose the less traveled path. So, while he would like to ALSO try the other path, he in no way regrets his choice - it made all the difference.

Answer 6

the road less traveled is no mf picnic.
but at the fork in the road we choose it didnt list warning signs.
aint that a *****.
caution you will aquire enimies on the honest road.
cant quite figure that one out.
i know i didnt answer your question.
but hope this helps.