The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

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Once you have read all of the popups, answer the questions in the corners by pressing on the orange question marks.

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"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"

Undergrowth = Plants, bushes, and small tress growing under larger trees in a forest.

Diverged = to split and move out in different directions from a single point

Fair = Not very good or very bad; of average or acceptable quality.

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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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 sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.

Exit Ticket Send Mrs. Rushe a chat answering this question: What is your interpretation of the final three lines of this poem? What do you think Frost meant? "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference."

Trodden- To crush or press with your feet; to form (a path) by walking.

Hence- Later than the present time.