Analysis of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
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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.
Analysis
Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” is about his regret for not fucking one chick, and instead banging another and contracting a nonspecific STD, which he is forced to take medication for for the rest of his life.
The two roads are the bitches, which at the moment surround Robby’s “yellow wood.” Rob is pissed they won’t have a 3-way with him. In the remaining lines of the first stanza, Roberto looks down one of the chicks and into her “undergrowth.”
Yes. Inappropriate. I know. But this is just the beginning.
So Rob-man finally decides he’s going to hook up with girl-1, primarily due to the fact that she “wanted wear.”
In the 3rd stanza, Rob’s dick decides to migrate and falls off. Robert laments this drastic turn of events and decides to tell his wife. “I shall be telling this with a sigh.” Well dear god, I would too. It’s your fucking dick man.
The last few lines enhance the meaning of the poem by adding a metaphysical awakening within the soul of the lost. Rob reminisces regarding how his wood traversed down many roads, but finally took the one no one wanted, the one less “travelled”, and henceforth fell victim to the STD laden trap.
And apparently, “it made all the difference.”
So it turns out “The Road Not Taken” is no more than a public service announcement about STDs. Figures.
Author: James Hoff
