ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Road Not Taken” is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, and later published as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval of 1916.

Detailed explanation-2: -“The Road Not Taken” is a narrative poem, meaning it is a poem that tells a story. It was written in 1915 as a joke for Frost’s friend, Edward Thomas. Frost and Thomas were fond of hiking together, and Thomas often had trouble making up his mind which trail they should follow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Frost’s most famous poems included “The Gift Outright, ” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, ” “Birches, ” “Mending Wall, ” “The Road Not Taken, ” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and-in retrospect-often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one.

Detailed explanation-5: -’Good fences make good neighbours. ‘ This is one of the most famous lines in Frost’s poetry, from his poem ‘Mending Wall’, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood.