Be one traveler

Wow !! Thats my favourite poem !

I think 'be ' here is absolutely fine : I could not travel both and be one traveller.

He wants to say that it's not possible for just "one " traveller to travel two roads.

To travel two roads simultaneously, he'll have to be "two".

Oh, I see... Thanks Soeleen!

If you have some more time, or if anyone is willing to help,

I have some more question on this poem.

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

pructus having perhaps the better claim,

Maybe the reason to travel that road was a better reason (than the reason to travel the other road). Maybe it was more attractive in some way. That is, if the road could speak, it would claim that it was better than the other road. It would mention how grassy it was, etc.

as for that = as for the fac

I might be wrong, but I think this seems weird because the author wrote a while ago.

The line might make more sense as, "And being one traveler, long I stood"

The participle "being" is used because it is a constant state.

"Became" is wrong because he does not change state; he stays "one traveler"

because Robert Frost is an old dude, he wrote "be"

it should be "being" the progressive form of to be

it should not be "became" because he isn't changing state.... he isn't just suddenly becoming a traveler, he has been one for a while

AnonymousThe line might make more sense as, "And being one traveler, long I stood"

No, no, no!!!

See the next post.

CJ

andromeda13because Robert Frost is an old dude, he wrote "be"

it should be "being" the progressive form of to be

Argh!

That makes sense gramatically but it also implies that he is sorry that he is not one traveler, and of course he is one traveler.

The entire poem:
http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_road.html

It makes more sense as "I c

andromeda13Just explain please how it makes sense for one traveler to be sorry he is not one traveler.

He's not sorry he isn't one traveler. He's sorry he isn't two travelers. He's sorry he can't go down both roads and, at the same time, remain only a single traveler. To go down two roads at once he would have to be two travelers.

It makes j

I know what I misunderstood now, and it did have to do with Frost's archaic words. Instead of taking this phrase together: "And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler," I was looking at it like this: "And be one traveler, long I stood," which is, of course, very confusing. It is also confusing because if someone were writing in prose, they would write: "And sorry I could not travel