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Road Not Taken Analysis - Research Paper

Road Not Taken Analysis

(1.) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

There are these two roads. They split. (One goes one way, the other goes a different way.) This happens in a yellow wood, ie, it is autmn when the green leaves turn yellow.

(2.) And sorry I could not travel both (3.)And be one traveler,

The narrarator regrets that he can't go down both roads, because then he'd have to split himself in two and that's impossible.

(4.) long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could (5.)To where it bent in the undergrowth;

He stands at the fork for a long time and examines one of the roads as far as he can. He can't see the end of the road because the road curves away from his line of vision.

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the narrator "I want you to walk on me."

(10.) Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.

However in reality, both the "First Road" and "Second Road" were equally worn down by people walking down them. So line 9 says the ""Second Road" had grass and would like to be walked on, but line 10 says that grassy "Second Road" was walked on as much as the first road. (so maybe the dirt/pavement on "Second Road" was equally packed down as road one, but "Second Road" had hardy grass growing on it and was a glutton for punishment?)

(11.) And both that morning equally lay (12.)In leaves no step had trodden black.

Both roads were equally NOT walked on that morning. (The yellow leaves on the ground weren't crushed by people walking on them, breaking them up, causing them to decompose.)

(13.) Oh, I kept the first for another day!

He decided to save traveling on the "First Road" (the one he examined to where it bent) for another day [in the ...

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Added: 4/3/2011 06:47:23 PM
Submitted By: athlete166
Category: Poetry & Poets
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