The Road Not Taken- Questions

Summary

The speaker stands in the woods, considering a fork in the road. Both ways are equally worn and equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have the opportunity to do so. And he admits that someday in the future he will recreate the scene with a slight twist: He will claim that he took the less-traveled road.

Form

“The Road Not Taken” consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB; the rhymes are strict and masculine, with the notable exception of the last line (we do not usually stress the -ence ofdifference). There are four stressed syllables per line, varying on an iambic tetrameter base.

1. What do you think the chances are that the speaker will get to come back and try the other path?
2. Do you think the speaker regrets his choice, or is happy about it? Why?
3. What type of choices do you think this fork in the road represents for the speaker?
4. What personal choices does this poem remind you of?
5. what is the tone of the speaker? Find key words in the poem.