VOCABULARY
This word means "separated and went in different directions."
What is diverged?
What does the fork in the road symbolize?
Making a choice (or a decision)
Where is the speaker standing at the beginning of the poem?
A fork in the road
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not..."
travel both
How many stanzas are in the poem?
4
This phrase means "in the very distant future."
What is "ages and ages hence"?
What season does the yellow wood represent?
Autumn
What action does the speaker do before choosing a path?
He looked down both roads (as far as he could)
"Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the better claim, / Because it was grassy and..."
... wanted wear
In what year was this poem published?
1916
This phrase means "wanted to be used or traveled on."
What is "wanted wear"?
What does the fact that both paths were worn "really about the same" symbolize?
Choices are often equal (or similar, or not as different as they seem)
What quality does the speaker initially think the second road has?
Grassy and wanting wear (or less traveled)
"Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really..."
...about the same
According to the poem, what will the speaker be doing "ages and ages hence"?
Telling this story with a sigh
This phrase describes leaves that have been stepped on and turned dark.
What is "trodden black"?
What do the leaves that "no step had trodden black" represent about the paths?
Both roads were equally untraveled
What did the speaker admit both paths actually had in common?
They were worn about the same
"Oh, I kept the first for another day! / Yet knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever..."
... come back
How many lines are in each stanza?
5
In the opening line, the two roads diverged in a wood of this color.
What is yellow?
What emotion does the speaker's future sigh symbolize?
Regret or relief
With what expression and at what time will the speaker tell the story?
A sigh, ages and ages hence (i.e., in the distant future)
"I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made..."
... all the difference
What nationality was Robert Frost?
American