Analysis of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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  • @LYHOTS
    @LYHOTS 11 років тому +42

    fantastic explanation. this is beyond obvious to those of us who have experienced such a tragedy. the moral of the story is- ANY CHOICE IS BETTER THAN NO CHOICE. Akin to the notion of "a good man doing nothing". this poem makes me weep everytime i think of it. its tragically beautiful. just like humanity.

    • @lifelearner45lloyd97
      @lifelearner45lloyd97 6 років тому

    • @ssmith91906
      @ssmith91906 5 років тому

      And for saying that, I love you. I really do. I wish I could cry with you listening to that poem.

  • @sargent_0
    @sargent_0 5 років тому +67

    Who else is here from online school?

  • @TheEnewman2000
    @TheEnewman2000 7 років тому +19

    Best analysis of this poem on UA-cam! Bravo good sir, bravo.

  • @PSYCHEwrongnumber
    @PSYCHEwrongnumber 12 років тому +65

    Its all fun and games until he puts math into it.

  • @BillyShakesWorld
    @BillyShakesWorld 10 років тому +25

    Hes in the woods, road splits into two paths.Looks down one. Takes the other which looks quite similar, but its claim on it being chosen in his mind relied on it being grassy and wanting wear. Now roads dont have minds or think, so the idea that he sees the road as wanting wear(to be walked on) is in my eyes almost as if its calling or beckoning him to come walk on it(life calling/fate/whatever).But the two paths are really almost identical in theory.He takes one with the happy though that hell give the other a try some other time, but knows in reality hell get caught up in his chosen path and where that leads that he most likely wont come back or revisit this fork. In the future he imagines telling this story of how he took the road less traveled. He says so, no matter how freaking similar he states that he took the one less traveled.But thats just an identifying factor, doesnt necessarily mean he took the hard road in life or any other crud.and regardless of whatever road he takes, itll make all the difference because no matter what decision you make in life it changes everything that comes after. Theres a difference no matter what. But i do believe that this is more of a idea about how you make decisions in life regardless big or small, but still wonder what might of come from picking another choice at any given moment.

    • @whatevertantofaz4450
      @whatevertantofaz4450 6 років тому +1

      BillyShakesWorld thank you
      There's not ONE interpretation of the poem, there's several, and as long as they relly on the text, it's ok :)

    • @italiano3.16
      @italiano3.16 6 років тому +1

      Right, and I mean, yes, the poem makes it clear CONTRA this video, that the narrator made a choice.

  • @syedaraziqa2891
    @syedaraziqa2891 7 років тому +8

    BRILLIANTLY PLANNED . VERY GOOD ANALYSIS! IT'S ALL ABOUT MAKING CHOICE IN ONE'S LIFE . WHEN ONE IS CONFUSED WHICH PATH IS THE BEST TO OPT.

  • @inspired...5664
    @inspired...5664 2 роки тому +1

    Oh thanks a million times.................. I needed it for my exam the day after tomorrow....... You just helped me.... God bless you abundantly....

  • @kudamurapa4623
    @kudamurapa4623 7 років тому +6

    I understand why one would be lead to that interpretation (in the video) but I disagree.. I often wonder why this poem is hugely misunderstood, to me it is as clear as day. If we carefully read it, we can see that a choice was made, here is why:
    "Two roads diverge in a yellow woods." - Initially we see an individual faced with two important choices and has a desire to explore both, But it is physically impossible to simultaneously do so, as he explains, "Sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler." After that we see the author considering long and hard about the two options before him, although initially he understood that there were no discernible differences between the paths(which made them equally attractive choices), but the more he thought, the more he saw nonexistent justifications as to why he should take the one over the the other (Indicative of human nature). Through those nonexistent justifications, a choice was made. But you can also see that the author had an idea of physically and temporarily exploring his first choice and then coming back to explore the other, but also understood that as he started exploring one he would never come back to explore the other as he will be curious as to how deep the rabbit hole goes - this is indicated in the lines, "Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads to way, I doubted if I should ever come back." the latter statement of the last quote also indicates a person who is already down a path and is conflicted if he should turn back to go explore the second choice. The last part of the poem is the actual embodiment of the tittle, "THE ROAD NOT TAKEN" or a summary of what the author had been saying - "I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence, two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by." Taking a road less traveled by in this instance is not a statement of nonconformity but reference to how he made the first choice.. in that very manner you can also see that the author is still conflicted about the road he didn't take, which gives the poem an element of regret , but he is standing firm in his initial disillusioned justification for making a choice - the Bottom line is that, he is a conflicted individual who is asking, "What if I had taken the other option(THE ROAD NOT TAKEN)?"

    • @italiano3.16
      @italiano3.16 6 років тому

      Yes, it's clear that the narrator made a choice and took one of the very similar roads. Even the title tells us he took on road. His dilemma is that he couldnt take BOTH roads. And he knows later in life he will give this BS justification about what he road he took, and yet there is no WAY he could have known what difference the "road not taken" would have amounted to.

  • @ahmedaegypt
    @ahmedaegypt 13 років тому +2

    That's a nice peom. It made me to remember my college time but the situation is different I can understand completely now what is said:)
    Thanks for the analysis
    Ahmed, Cairo, Egypt

  • @lohkoonhoong6957
    @lohkoonhoong6957 3 роки тому +1

    We made a choice and thereafter realized
    That it was not a better or worse choice;
    Yet somehow we have that gut feeling that
    The choice made a difference, that it had
    Somewhat changed us for the rest of our life.

  • @kevinguitron1534
    @kevinguitron1534 7 років тому +1

    I am learning about this poem in my AP lit class! This was extremely helpful! Thank you!

  • @freepina
    @freepina 13 років тому +3

    It's kinda funny when someone explains a poem with "if x

  • @alwaystruckin95
    @alwaystruckin95 4 роки тому +1

    Thank you for letting me know

  • @juliotancredi7468
    @juliotancredi7468 Рік тому +1

    It is difficult to agree that no choice was taken.
    The poem clearly states that he took the second, and kept the first for another day.

    • @michaeljanuszewski1062
      @michaeljanuszewski1062 9 місяців тому

      I completely agree with you! The traveler studied one path for a while and then definitely took the second. It is unclear whether he studies the second path beforehand but that's not really important. The narrator of this video lost me when he claims the traveler is so indecisive that he takes neither. So what did he do, stand at the fork for days on end? Turn back? That makes no sense. I believe the poem is about the regret of never knowing whether the other path was ultimately better or worse than the path he chose so in his old age he plans to falsely justify his choice even though, at the time, the 2 paths were virtually identical. I'm guessing he plans to do this because it is such an important decision that he doesn't want to second guess himself years later which would drive him crazy.

  • @lemon-vy3mj
    @lemon-vy3mj 3 роки тому +3

    math is everywhere to haunt me

  • @DeMarkieSade
    @DeMarkieSade 13 років тому

    "There are goods ( or roads in Frost's case) so opposed that we cannot seize (or walk) both, but by too much prudence (or contemplating in the case of Frost), We pass between them at too great a distance to reach either, This is often the fate of long consideration; he does nothing who endeavors to do more than is allowed to humaity."
    Samuel Johnson: from "Rasselas, The prince of Abissinia."

  • @kaileivega7637
    @kaileivega7637 10 років тому +2

    This is a great poem that im studying in school

  • @sohailsarkar1134
    @sohailsarkar1134 6 років тому +1

    Great Job Sir,
    loved the explanation. :)
    Best explanation of this poem

  • @dyohmenap6040
    @dyohmenap6040 12 років тому +2

    Very good analysis!

  • @Hainesus
    @Hainesus 2 роки тому +1

    What a good explanation

  • @Aa11qq
    @Aa11qq 6 років тому

    I watched you for Data Structures videos, I’ve been finished with English for a long time now, but I find this poem interesting. But I loved how you use the x = y logic. 😆😆😆😆😆

  • @ixmix
    @ixmix 2 роки тому

    giving me another dimension of understanding,, tnx bro

  • @JEANNEMULLER
    @JEANNEMULLER 13 років тому

    As a poet I can say this wood
    is a wood but not Frost's
    wood of yellow~
    I ponder what he would say
    if Frost were today a live fellow!

  • @sarveshbhati4514
    @sarveshbhati4514 12 років тому

    It will help me to get good marks in my unit test.
    A great thanks

  • @dezzy3699
    @dezzy3699 10 років тому +1

    My mom doesnt believe this analysis and it could be wrong or true . But if we're going in that direction. ... my mom like.. but it says "and I - I took the road less traveled by" indicating that he had to take a road . BUT WHAT IFFFF . The road that was less traveled by was when he turned around and decided not to take that road ? Or nah ..

    • @dezzy3699
      @dezzy3699 10 років тому

      That can't be true ? Link?

  • @CatacombCrows
    @CatacombCrows 9 років тому +2

    the poem is meant to be read back-words.

  • @gopher952
    @gopher952 9 років тому +1

    Thank you so much for sharing this analysis. I think it highlights why this has been a classic poem to use to assist learning how to interpret and showcase the succinct meaningfulness of prose writing, especially by Robert Frost. But of course the complexity of an explanation for this prose writing is more complex than the metaphoric imagery expressed in the poem itself, don't you think?

  • @gopher952
    @gopher952 9 років тому

    But it does seem that the author of that poem analysis seizes well the central idea that "there is a fear of regret of not succeeding in making the choice of a path less traveled, and in fact not making a choice at all," as they demonstrated mathematically, which is a tragedy. I don't know if this a psychoanalytic form of analysis, or just an offshoot of it, but I think whatever reason it has an effect, that it is a powerful poem.

  • @farahzahra22
    @farahzahra22 12 років тому +1

    please wolud you do an analysis of The poem "what is life ?" by John Clare Clare

  • @cynthiabell1734
    @cynthiabell1734 10 років тому +1

    Great job!

  • @MitchellG-Camerican
    @MitchellG-Camerican 11 років тому

    You are incorrect, if you read the poem Frost says, "Though as for that the passing there, had worn them really about the same." Meaning that both roads were in fact the same, redundant, inconsequential route at the time of his choosing. It is about the regret of missing out of the other road, which is what the author of this video points out.

  • @ixmix
    @ixmix 2 роки тому

    what i understand is that the poet lamented about the choice he made- not taken the road"...

  • @The1stBigDaddy
    @The1stBigDaddy 12 років тому +2

    i think he did take a road beaucse he says
    then took the other, as just as fair
    and haveing peeeerhaps the better claim
    beaucse it was grassy and wanted wear
    the road he just came along must have been worn beacuse he just walked on it ???

    • @italiano3.16
      @italiano3.16 6 років тому

      Exactly, He did make a choice and take a road. Even the title shows this, although it mentions the road he didn't take.

  • @bettyntiamoahaboagye2507
    @bettyntiamoahaboagye2507 3 роки тому

    I love the background song😍

  • @OceanbornAngel
    @OceanbornAngel 14 років тому +3

    I have to disagree wholly with your analysis here. Poems are very subjective in the first place. I believe this poem has more about Frost's choice to become a writer and not take the standard career path that was offered him. Autumn has no meaning of death at all. It's just an evocative imagery. Why would he be saying in the poem that he will be telling this to people ages and ages hence if he was at the end? I think what you're doing is over analyzing something with a more simplistic meaning.

  • @azizabee1666
    @azizabee1666 8 років тому +1

    nice video and very information video

  • @troycuhh9242
    @troycuhh9242 4 роки тому

    Thank you

  • @Nate1185
    @Nate1185 13 років тому +1

    I can't get through the intro music without giggling just a little bit.

  • @John_Lee_
    @John_Lee_ 11 років тому

    If both roads are the same , why regret not taking the other? If they're the same you aren't missing much.

  • @hellothere4485
    @hellothere4485 8 років тому

    this was an unseen poem in my exam, i hope i wrote the right stuff...

  • @8Baller1000
    @8Baller1000 9 років тому

    Wow this poem just made me start thinking hard about life.. and some decisions I need to make, I want to make but I don't know which road to take. My choices are take the new road or continue down this road, so the new road would be the less traveled one. But I can't come back to the other road after. So I am not sure what my decision will bring, happiness which I think it will, or just change everything for the worse..

    • @CyberTubingCyberTubing111
      @CyberTubingCyberTubing111 8 років тому +1

      +8Baller1000 thanks the paragraph u wrote help me in the h.w answer

    • @8Baller1000
      @8Baller1000 8 років тому

      +Cyber _Tubing lol really? :-)

    • @8Baller1000
      @8Baller1000 8 років тому

      +Cyber _Tubing if I told you what I was talking about I don't think you would've used it

    • @CyberTubingCyberTubing111
      @CyberTubingCyberTubing111 8 років тому

      i used it on my test and it was correct

    • @8Baller1000
      @8Baller1000 8 років тому

      Cyber _Tubing thats awesome!! Making me feel good n shit lol

  • @bridgette48449
    @bridgette48449 13 років тому

    It is a satire he is making fun of a friend,one Thomas Edwards he use to go walking with , who went on and on about the road they didn't take Frost said so in a letter he wrote.

  • @joslil21joslil20
    @joslil21joslil20 5 років тому

    I just felt stupid that I didn’t realize yellow wood = fall

  • @MrKevincito
    @MrKevincito 12 років тому

    i think he said that one road looked like it had more grass and nobody gad stepped on it and want it wear and then he said" i i took the one less traveled by" doesnt that mean he took that one?

  • @joelbaxter8313
    @joelbaxter8313 10 років тому +2

    To be honest, I think this poem is about when someone comes to a choice in their life like what career to take. It was grassy and wanted wear because not many people had gone down that path in life for example, priesthood. And telling this with a sigh ages and ages hence, two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. I think this poem is about going down the religious career choice because not many people go down that road in life.

    • @AirTimeEh
      @AirTimeEh 9 років тому +7

      Where did you get the religious career aspect?

    • @austinco3718
      @austinco3718 6 років тому

      Lol?

    • @ninareiner877
      @ninareiner877 6 років тому

      Joel Baxter it is except for the religous part

  • @rawabinasser34
    @rawabinasser34 8 років тому

    that's so helpful thanks!

  • @LindaChhay
    @LindaChhay 13 років тому +1

    Most of your analysis is good, but he did decide on a road. "The Road Not Taken" is the road is the life choices that he wish he made, but didn't. Frost is talking about human nature and how people tend to make their life seem more important than they really are to help their ego when in actuality they are full of regrets. His sigh in the end indicates his regrets.

    • @elispangler812
      @elispangler812 4 роки тому

      the whole poem was literally just a joke to mess with his friend

  • @113jemmy
    @113jemmy 11 років тому

    I believe that is a very under-read interpretation of this poem, as backed up by all the examples given by xoax, and my English teacher agrees; however, as no meaning was given by frost himself, this poem can, of course be taken in any way, even the most literal way that he was in a forest and took a path that wasn't quite as taken and it could well be correct.

  • @MitchellG-Camerican
    @MitchellG-Camerican 11 років тому

    At the time they were the same to HIM, whether they were really the same or not. He does not regret it at the time of his choosing of the road he takes, but it is later in his life that he regrets not revisiting the path he did not travel.

  • @kezialg3898
    @kezialg3898 4 роки тому

    Very useful

  • @MrKevincito
    @MrKevincito 12 років тому

    @MrKevincito nevermind i see where he say the had wor about the same

  • @Diablo84
    @Diablo84 5 років тому

    Archie Andrews fave poem

  • @mileyjeanette
    @mileyjeanette 12 років тому

    thks. now i understand

  • @Einstien1879
    @Einstien1879 13 років тому +1

    my interpretation: he regretted going to the woods he should have kept his life in the city where there are many roads to life of hapiness... the first step he made going to the woods is the biggest mistake in his life for whatever road he took the ending is still a sigh... : > )

  • @rorysimmonds
    @rorysimmonds 14 років тому

    @mojacherox Yeah that's what I heard

  • @LYHOTS
    @LYHOTS 11 років тому +5

    your english teacher is entitled to his/her personal interpretation, but if i were you, id take him/her with grain of salt from here on out. :/

  • @edmundcowan9131
    @edmundcowan9131 Рік тому

    Blew it Made all the difference.

  • @vudu8ball
    @vudu8ball 11 років тому +1

    Great analysis. Makes me feel like a dope as I always thought of the poem as a peon to individuality. OPPS my bad!

  • @epicbamf123
    @epicbamf123 12 років тому +3

    Thumbs up if Mr. Shakely brought you here!

  • @skill4mulah
    @skill4mulah 12 років тому

    to my understanding, he took the road less traveled by, and ill give an example in real life
    alot of people will do "mainstream" things, and want to do them because other people are doing them, while other chose their own path because it has more real meaning to themself
    so what he is saying is he took the road wich has more meaning, then the road wich is more popular
    thats my understanding, my FIRST poem ever read so i may be wrong, im trying to get into reading this type of stuff though.

  • @TheJangodarkblade
    @TheJangodarkblade 12 років тому

    wait so which road did he take? I assume he didn't take any because the poem i feel was not based of a true event.

  • @noobslayeru
    @noobslayeru 8 років тому

    so what is the main theme in the poem?

  • @debbieculley7532
    @debbieculley7532 5 років тому +1

    I don't agree; I think he did take the road less traveled.

  • @HappyDancerInPink
    @HappyDancerInPink 11 років тому

    4:34 travelled*

  • @cozyboy_fee
    @cozyboy_fee 7 років тому +1

    who watching in 2017

  • @freepina
    @freepina 13 років тому

    But you explained it well so its okay :D

  • @gopher952
    @gopher952 9 років тому

    it help me under stand the movie

    • @gopher952
      @gopher952 9 років тому

      Actually there was a video analysis (lol), not movie, I must stop writing quips on UA-cam late at night while working.

  • @ms.jaquez1314
    @ms.jaquez1314 6 років тому +1

    I disagree. The Road Not Taken is the road fewer people have taken; not the speaker.

    • @TheJpep2424
      @TheJpep2424 6 років тому

      The poem says the roads were equal, so there is no road fewer people have taken. The roads were the same, but he is trying to convince himself he took a road less traveled.

  • @JShade82
    @JShade82 7 років тому +1

    "Because it was grassy and wanted wear."
    Yes, there WAS difference, apparently the poster was not listening.
    Fear!!!!!!!!! Not at all.
    Poster seems to be putting his own thoughts and FEARS into his analysis.
    Yellow? Cowardice? You are so deep in your own self that well, let me not speculate like YOU HAVE! I have been to over 70 countries. I am offended by by your analysis.
    I have never posted before but you pissed me off royally!!!
    (BTW I do live in Silicon Valley and am a computer consultant.)

    • @הבושטסי
      @הבושטסי 7 років тому

      but he said and both that morning equally lay

    • @TheJpep2424
      @TheJpep2424 6 років тому

      Though as for that the passing there
      Had worn them really about the sameThere WASNT a difference.

  • @hannahliz7057
    @hannahliz7057 9 років тому

    That background music thoooo....lol

  • @DeMarkieSade
    @DeMarkieSade 13 років тому

    Or "He does nothing---who does nothing at all; who, out of the fear of regret of making the bad choice or wrong decision, fails to do anything and remains irresolute.

  • @jakescake7636
    @jakescake7636 3 роки тому

    henlo munsci

  • @emilymasi1999
    @emilymasi1999 11 років тому

    No he takes the one that most people don't usually take.

  • @garymason7023
    @garymason7023 9 років тому +2

    As commentary is cheap, it should be a criminal offense for a poet or author to fail to state clearly the meaning of his work.
    Around the 04:00 mark, the analyst calls the use of "shall" 'archaic'... the poem was written 100 years ago: at that time "I shall" was the standard use, and "I will"would have been considered wrong. (Even today, we can discern a difference...)

    • @italiano3.16
      @italiano3.16 6 років тому

      Your point is perhaps supported in that "I shall" occurs 11 times in the book 'The Poems of Robert Frost' and "I will" 8 times. I haven't gone through every occurrence but the use here of 'shall' is perhaps used for assonance and alliteration: look at 'sigh,', 'somewhere', the s- sound in 'ages' and 'ages' and in 'hence'. Regarding the latter/last Frost uses 'hence' in 4 times in his poems.

    • @elispangler812
      @elispangler812 4 роки тому

      SOYOU'REASSUMINGALLPOETSANDAUTHORSHAVETOBEMALE!?

    • @r-a-c-h-e-l
      @r-a-c-h-e-l 2 роки тому

      @@elispangler812 what?

    • @elispangler812
      @elispangler812 2 роки тому

      @@r-a-c-h-e-l
      *Ahem*
      I am making social commentary on the fact that some people would rather point out the inconsequential mistakes make as their interlocutor makes their argument as opposed to countering the point itself.
      A common example of said inconsequential mistakes is the misuse of a pronoun, as was displayed is the original post in the sentence "As commentary is cheap, it should be a criminal offense for a poet or author to fail to state clearly the meaning of HIS work", his being the offending word.
      The commentary being made here is done employing satire, mimicking the inanities of a person who would be offended by such minutia as a misused pronoun.
      Ultimately, as it needs to be explained word for word, it is stupid that a person would be so insecure about their own intelligence that, instead of conceding a point to their interlocutor, they would attack their character, both a logical fallacy and an embarrassing sight, and this is displayed using both the font and a lack of spaces, to show that the character I was playing was mindless and enraged.

  • @harshitabisht6620
    @harshitabisht6620 7 років тому

    nice

  • @KuyeUnfiltered
    @KuyeUnfiltered 3 роки тому

    Anyone here for COVID 19 online school?

  • @moraps9014
    @moraps9014 6 років тому

    f o boil

  • @karolwirkus2494
    @karolwirkus2494 4 роки тому

    who thought it would be a good idea to add maths into peoms smh

  • @savannahtaylor9936
    @savannahtaylor9936 7 років тому

    .

  • @adrianakkari7162
    @adrianakkari7162 4 роки тому

    100th comment