The Road Not Taken - by Robert Lee Frost

1. The poem has 4 stanzas.

2. The poem is about choices that people have to make in life and the importance
of making the right ones .The road is is a symbolic journey. Each path leads to
a new destination.
3. The poet is at a crossroad of his life. He is faced with two choices. He has to
make the right decision .Finally he chose a life that few people would follow
and that choice has made a lot of difference to him.

Question Bank:
1. What is the season mentioned in this poem?
2. What must the traveler do?
3. The “I” in the poem refers to _________.
4. What is the poet’s dilemma?
5. What is meant by the phrase “though as for that passing there” in stanza
2”?
6. Which road did the persona take? Give your evidence.
7. Why did the persona take the other road?
8. What is meant by the line “And both that morning equally lay” in stanza 3?
9. What do you think the poet meant the line “Oh, I kept the first for another
day!”?
10. Why did the persona doubt ever coming back?
11. Why will the poet be ‘telling this with a sigh”?
12. Why will his choice of the road make “all the difference”?
13. If you are the poet, which road do you choose? Why?
14. Do you think that the persona had made a good choice? Give your
evidence.
15. What do you think about the persona who had made the decision? Give
your evidence.
16. Do you like to take challenges in your life? Why?

Further thinking:

In our daily life, we always have to make a decision in choosing something.

As a student, how do you make a good decision for your future? Why should
we plan for the future?

Do you be responsible for your own decision? Explain your answer.

Good decision enlightens our life, bad decision passes the time. Do you
agree?