![]() ![]() But perhaps it was not without an intuitive impulse that it was motivated. Hence, we find that the poet’s choice was logically incomprehensible and appears wholly arbitrary, whimsical and undetermined. In interviews, conversation and lectures, Frost always stresses that though the road he had taken had: There are no residues of self-respect, moral obligation, not even curiosity in Frost’s preference of the road he finally did take. ![]() There are no obvious reasons for Frost preferring one road to the other. In The Road not Taken, the problem of choice is very elementary. From birth till death, he has to make choices at every step-he chooses, deliberately-and in the best of men, it (this act of making a choice) is often coupled with a thorough knowledge of the consequences implied in making the choice. Perhaps, if asked, Frost would define man as a choice-making animal. This inevitability, which apparently has an element of choice is brought in this oft-quoted and oft-misunderstood poem, The Road not Taken. He was inevitably guided towards his destination by some spirit, some unseen forces that keep working on man. Relating the poem to the reality of Frost’s experience, Untermeyer says that Frost has gone his own way. Nitchie points out this poem has for its theme, one of the major themes in Frost’s poetry- the problem of having to make a choice. Here the poet takes his chance and comments on the difficulty and importance of having to make a choice. ![]() The poet’s creative faculty gets enlivened when he faces the problem of having to choose one of the two roads at a bifurcation. In the poem, we find a rare blend of ‘inner lyric vision and the outer contemplative narration’. It has been acknowledged as one of the finest and most popular poems of the volume. The Road not taken was first published in 1916, in the volume of poems entitled Mountain Interval. ![]()
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