Perspectives
As with almost every literary work, your understanding of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost may grow from putting the poem into perspective. This way, you will be able to engage in meaningful dialogues about the poem and gain new insights about …
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Other texts by the same author
One equally important poem of Robert Frost is “Fire and Ice”, written in 1923. Although the poem deals with the world’s end, it presents the same idea you can observe in “The Road Not Taken”: making a decision.
The poem is quite sho…
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Texts with the same theme from other authors
As you have seen, the poem “The Road Not Taken” deals with the theme of indecision. When it comes to other texts with the same theme, many people immediately think of the play Hamlet by Wi…
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Social context and relevance today
One important thing that you have to know is that the poem is based on the author’s friendship with British writer Edward Thomas. Frost believed Thomas to be an ind…
