יום ראשון י''ב אלול

The road not taken by Robert frost

First stanza

• The speaker is at a fork in the woods
• "Yellow wood" – the leaves are yellow it is probably fall
• "diverged" – to diverge means to split. There is a fork in the woods.
• "I could not travel both" – the speaker wants to walk on both roads at once but understands that it's impossible.
• He needs to choose one road, so he looks as far as possible until he can't see anymore because the road bends "it bent in the undergrowth".

1. Where is the traveler as he starts his story? Setting – where? In the woods. when? In the fall.
2. What regret does the speaker express at this point? That he cant travel both roads
3. What prevents the traveler from seeing further in the road? That the road bends

Second stanza

• After looking at one road, the traveler decides to take "the other road"
• Fair = attractive pretty
• He chooses the second road because fewer people walked there.