Creative texts


ACTIVITY 4 Did you know?


Te Road Not Taken was published in 1916. Te


title is oſten misquoted as Te Road Less Travelled, from the penultimate


(second last) line: ‘I took the one less travelled by’.


Read the well-known poem, Te Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, as well as the summary and theme, and then answer the questions that follow.


Te Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,


And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Glossary


bent – turned sharply diverged – separated and went in different directions had trodden black – so thickly covered in leaves that you couldn’t see the black soil underneath hence – from this time; from now undergrowth – thick and dense growth of small trees and other plants, especially under trees wanted wear – had not been used/stepped on by many people


Ten took the other, as just as fair


And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Tough 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 travelled by, And that has made all the difference.


Summary of the poem Te speaker stands in the woods - at a fork in the road. He must choose which one to take, but finds it difficult as both roads look the same. Tey are equally worn and equally covered with leaves that no-one has walked on that morning. When the speaker chooses one of the roads, he tells himself that he will take the other road another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will ever have the opportunity to do so. He admits that someday in the future he will recreate the scene with a slight twist: he will claim that he took the less-travelled road.


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Teme Every decision we make has an effect and once we make a choice, we can’t change the outcome. It is human to sometimes wonder what would have happened if we had chosen ‘the other path’.


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