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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
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Hi
Please help me with this,
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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,

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

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere 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.
My Question: I have a doubt in the bolded portion: Does the poet say after having taken the road that had been less travelled he realized that the road gets worn as people trod on it just as it had happened then?
  

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-- No, Frost just says that the difference in wear was not very much, really.

— Mister Micawber

  • -- No, Frost just says that the difference in wear was not very much, really.
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I have a doubt in the bolded portion: Does the poet say after having taken the road that had been less travelled he realized that the road gets worn as people trod on it just as it had happened then?-- No, Frost just says that the difference in wear was not very much, really.
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Thank you, Sir.
Please tell me whether I got it right
Frost concludes that the road which at first seemed to be grassy, as he traveled some distance turned out to be almost as worn out as the trodden path.

Sir,I will come attempt an interpretation on the metaphorical meaning after you check this.
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No, that is not his point at all. He chose the less trodden path, even if it was not much less trodden: he takes the path that fewer people do.
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Thank you very much, Mister Micawber.
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What he's saying is that both paths had been equally traveled, as far as total traffic over time is concerned ("...the passing...had worn them really about the same,"), but the one he took, the grassy one, had not been traveled recently, which had allowed the grass to grow - however on that particular day neither path had been traveled ("And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had tro
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vsureshDoes the poet say after having taken the road that had been less travelled he realized that the road gets worn as people trod on it just as it had happened then?
No. The bolded portion says nothing of the kind.

Though as for that
But where that was concerned
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No, no—no flaw! Frost is a master at this. The difference is subtle, the traveller is unsure, and he is modest in the unorthodoxy of his choice. All of that is in the line, 'really about the same'.
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Mister MicawberThe difference is subtle
Too subtle for me, apparently! Maybe I should give it a rest and come back to it in a few weeks and see if I have a different impression then.

CJ
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