The Road Not Taken analysis

Bildir, Hata. “The Road Not Taken.” PoemHunter.com, 2012. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/. 3.

A. Read the poem belowB. Fill out the chart below

a. First figure out what you think the word means based on just what you’ve read from the poem. Try to infer the meaning and then

b. Second, Explain why you think that word means your definition and use evidence from the poem to back up your reasoning.

c. Third, look up the word in the dictionary and write the definitiond. Fourth, explain if you were correct, close, or totally off and why you think that happened

by using evidence from the text.

The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear,Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Words What you infer the meaning is

Explain why and use evidence from text.

Dictionary definition Correct, close, or totally off and why that happened?

Diverged

Undergrowth

Worn

Trodden

Hence