hi everyone what does the poem a path less travelled by Robert frost mean?

Answer 1

It means to go your own way, if you follow the one that everyone else takes - you will get what everyone else gets, if you follow your own path you will end up having a much more rich and personal joourney as you will get what other people arent getting. The path less travelled is having the courage to follow your own heart!

Answer 2

Robert Frost

ABOUT THIS POEM:

The Road Not Taken is a poem, published in 1916, by Robert Frost in his collection, Mountain Interval.

meaning:

The literal meaning of this poem by Robert Frost is pretty obvious. A traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to go to continue his journey. After much mental debate, the traveler picks the road "less traveled by."
The figurative meaning is not too hidden either. The poem describes the tuogh choices people stand for when traveling the road of life. The words "sorry" and "sigh" make the tone of poem somewhat gloomy. The traveler regrets leaves the possibilities of the road not chosen behind. He realizes he probably won't pass this way again. More…..

http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/roadnottaken/roadnottaken.htm

The Road Not Taken 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.

Answer 3

Robert Frost Path Less Travelled

Answer 4

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;

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.



It means that going down the path that most people
didn't choose made all the difference in his life compared
to where he would have gone had he chosen the other.

Answer 5

The poem is called "The Road Not Taken." Read it first, as apparently, you don't even have a copy in front of you. Robert Frost is pretty obvious about the meaning. He spells it out for you. It's one of my favorite poems and deserves a good read.

For shame if you miss out on reading this because you are being lazy about doing homework.

Answer 6

It means living life on your own terms, and choosing your own direction, even if it is not what is expected of you or those in your position by people or the society around you. It means you choose, knowing you will never have the opportunity to begin again, what you choose will determine the rest of your life. Very poignant, indeed. I love Robert Frost. Read the poem, sometime.

Answer 7

I never thought of the keywords as being "less travelled", though many do. (It's not to be confused with the Scott Peck book that IS called "The Road Less Travelled".) It's called The Road Not Taken and to me it suggests that whatever you do, it's easy and natural, but pointless, to dwell on the fact that you didn't do something else.

In the even more clear-cut words of Rush: If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Answer 8

You mean "The Road Not Taken?"

Have you even bothered to read it??

Frost himself defined it's meaning:
".....I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way...."

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken
for a reasonable analysis

and the poem, & further analysis here
http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/life/roadnottaken/roadnottaken.htm

Answer 9

It means taking the way that others haven't...

or doing something you haven't considered to do ...
LIKE DOING YOUR OWN BLOODY HOMEWORK ..

of all Frost's poems .. THIS IS THE CLEAREST

how are you going to cope with "fire and Ice" , or Mending Walls or many of his others ??

do yourself a favour . .TAKE YOUR I-POD out of your ears DURING english class and start paying attention to your teacher

Answer 10

making choices in life