Summary of The Road Not Taken (Poem) Class 9 Beehive

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The poet talks about two roads in the poem, in fact, the two roads are two alternative ways of life. Robert frost wants to tell that the choice we make in our lives has a far-reaching result. The poem presents a dilemma that every man faces in his life. One day while walking in a wooded area full of trees with yellow leaves, the poet comes to a fork in the place and he has to decide which road he should take. He stands there for long and starts debating over the choice. He looks at the first road as far as he can see, till it bends in the undergrowth. It seemed to have been travelled by many people. Then he looked at the second road. It was grassy and wanted wear means less travelled. The poet is tempted to walk on it. He keeps on thinking for a long time and comes to the conclusion that he cannot walk on both. That is the irony of life. We cannot travel all the available roads no matter how much we may wish to. However, he decides to take the second path with the intention of walking on the first any other day in the future. At the same time, he knows that the chances of his returning that way are very less. He also knows the manner in which one path leads on to the other. Finally, the poet started moving on the second road. Then the poem shifts to the last stanza and the poet become completely philosophical and talk as if he has travelled for a long era and looks back at the choices that he made in life and their consequences. Now he feels that life has been completely different. He feels that his life has been very different from the common people because he has always been tempted to take the path not generally followed by others. Here he advises doing something different also. It shows the poet as an adventurous man ready to take risks in life which everyone should be like.

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• The poet was standing at a place where two roads/ paths ‘diverged in a yellow wood’.
• He was sorry that he couldn’t travel both at the same time.
• He looked down one as far as he could till it bent away in the undergrowth.
• The other road was just as fair and perhaps presented a better claim.
• The second road was grassy, less frequented by travellers and ‘wanted wear’.
• The poet had to make a choice and he resolved the dilemma.
• He chose the second road and `kept the first for another day’.
• The poet had a doubt that he would never get a chance to travel on the first road again.
• The choice had been made and it made all the difference in his life.
• It was very difficult to say whether the choice was right or wrong on the spur of the moment
• But the poet neither seems to be very happy nor very sad with his choice and leaves the end open to the readers and their choices.

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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;

The poet was standing at a junction in a yellow forest where two roads separated in two different directions. The poet feels sorry that being the lonely traveller, he could not walk on both the roads at the same time.
He stood there for a long time looking at the road down as far as he could. The road then bent and disappeared from his eyes in bushes and the undergrowth.

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

Then the poet took the other road which was as beautiful as the first one. The second road presented a better claim because it was (still) grassy and had not worn off due to walking of the travellers. As far as the question of their being worn due to the walking of the travellers, both of them had worn in the same way.

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.

Both the roads lay in front of the poet almost in the same condition. They were covered with the fallen leaves. And the leaves had not been blackened by the steps of the walkers. The leaves still lay there uncrushed by the steps. The poet left the first road thinking that he would use it on some other day. When he was doing so, he knew that how one way leads to another. He would go so far from the first road that he doubted if he would evercome back to walk on it.

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(पतझड़ में) पीले वन में से दो सड़कें दो अलग – अलग दिशाओं की ओर अलग कर रही थीं | मुझे अफसोस है कि मैं दोनों सड़कों पर (एक ही समय ) नहीं चल सकता था | मैं कभी देर तक वहाँ खड़ा उस सड़क को जितनी दूर देख सकता था देखता रहा जहाँ से वह झाडियों और छोटे – छोटे पेड़ों में मुड़ कर लुप्त हो गयी थी|

मैंने दूसरी सड़क पकड़ ली , जो कि पहली जितनी ही सुन्दर थी | और शायद वह अपने पर चलने का बेहतर दावा पेश करती थी क्योंकि वह घास से ढकी हुई थी और घिसी भी नहीं थीं | यधपि जहाँ तक उन पर यात्रियों के चलने से घिसने का प्रश्न था , वे दोनों समान रूप से ही घिसी हुई थीं |

उस सुबह दोनों सड़कें मेरे सामने बराबर रूप से फैली हुई थीं | दोनों गिरे हुए पत्तों से बराबर ढकी हुई थीं | यह स्पष्ट था कि दोनों के ऊपर पड़े हुए पत्तों को यात्रियों के पैरों ने अभी मैला नहीं किया था | हाँ मैंने पहली सड़क को किसी और दिन के छोड़ दिया | हाँलांकि मैं यह जानता था कि एक रास्ते से दूसरा रास्ता निकलता जाता है और मुझे सन्देह भी था फिरकभी लौटकर (छोड़ी हुई ) पहली सड़क पर चल पाऊंगा|

कवि अपने निर्णय से अधिक प्रसन्न नहीं है | एक दम क्षण भर में यह निर्णय लेना बहुत कठिन है | शायद अनेक वर्ष बाद , वह दुख के साथ जाहिर कर पायेगा कि उसका फैसला उचित नहीं था | वहां दो सड़क थीं जो दो विपरीत दिशाओं की ओर जा रही थीं | और उसने उस सड़क पर चलने का फैसला किया जिसका कम प्रयोग किया गया था | यह उसका अपना फैसला था , और इसी फैसले ने उसके जीवन में अंतर ला दिया था |