Who Is Robert Frost's Misunderstood Poetry?

“Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. Frost lived with his father and mother where they had moved to San Francisco, shortly after marring” (Academy of American Poets, 1). Robert had a sister named Jeanie, who was two years younger. Frost’s father died from Tuberculosis when Frost was eleven. After his father died he became very interested in reading a writing poetry during his high school years (Academy of American Poets, 1). Frost later attended Harvard after Dartmouth College in Hanover. Frost attended Harvard, he sadly never earned a formal degree. “Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel.” (Academy of American Poets, 1).

This is a poem about a speaker who is in the woods, at the fork of a road. The speaker can either choose to take either path, a worn and a path that does not look so worn. This is poem is a representation of life where the choice is to either choose to go down either path, but neither are less worn. “The Road Not Taken” is often a misunderstood poem for everyone. The readers of this poem never grasp what Frost is talking about. This poem states that even though Frost describes one of the roads as “the passing there/ Had worn them really about the same”. The other road is described as “that morning lay/ In the leaves no step had trodden black” (Poem Hunter, 2). These few lines are in the poem because the speaker wants the reader to realize that both paths are equal, neither worn any less. One of the most common things in this poem, both literally and figuratively. The paths in the woods and the fork in the road that the speaker is stopped at. This is a crisis situation for the speaker. These paths symbolize free will and fate. By saying that we are free to choose, but we do not really know what we are choosing

The poem has a very irregular form, interweaving three rhymes and two line lengths into a poem of nine lines (Poem Hunter, 3). Each line ending in –ire, -ice, and –ate, with four to eight syllables (Poem Hunter, 3). Within the poem humor, fury, and detachment are all combined to bring this poem together. The aim for this poem is to find out the uneasy truth about how the world may end. This is also another poem Frost keeps the readers wondering for the questions that often go unanswered. This poem can have effects to contrast between the simple questions, and vague gravity of subject. The first two lines of the poem shows the theories of modern science to whether the world will end in fire or ice. As the poem continues the reader realizes that fire is associated with hell and ice is to heaven. Knowing that fire and ice are symbols for human behaviors and emotions. The poems language is simple, but the climax of the final lines is not as clear as the rest of the