The Road Not Taken

Her får du hjælp til analyse af digtet "The Road Not Taken" af Robert Frost. I analysehjælpen kigger vi på digtets opbygning, fortæller samt sprog og stil. Desuden får du et summary af digtet sammen med hjælp til at afkode digtets temaer og til at perspektivere digtet.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “The Road Not Taken” (1916)
Forfatter: Robert Frost
Genre: Digt

Robert Frost (1874-1963) var en berømt amerikansk digter, der i sin levetid modtog ikke mindre en 4 Pulitzer-priser for sin poesi. "The Road Not Taken" er måske hans mest berømte digt. Det var inspireret af forfatteren Edward Thomas, der var en ven af Frost.

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Summary

The poem presents an anonymous speaker reflecting on which road he should take further on. He finds himself in a wood and encounters two roads. Both look more or less the same, but the speaker finds it difficult to choose just one. Eventually, he decides to choose one of them. Still, on his way, he keeps on thinking about the other road. He makes a promise to himself that he would return and take the other road some other day, but he knows that he may never return. At the end of the poem, the speaker decides what to tell others when he will be asked about the road he took. He decides to tell people that he took the road which was less traveled and that it made all the difference.