What is the poem two roads diverged in a yellow wood mainly about?
It is one of the most misunderstood poems in English literature. It is – of course – a very famous poem by Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken.” Most people believe it is a celebratory poem. It isn’t. The speaker is looking back, wondering if he chose the correct path or not – he is not necessarily happy that he took the less traveled, perhaps more difficult road. Robert Frost addressed this point himself, in 1953, at the “Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.” He said: “One stanza of ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years later, and I couldn’t bear not to finish it. I wasn’t thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn’t go the other. He was hard on himself that way.” Specifically, Frost was thinking of his friend Edward Thomas and the poem does have a literal as well as symbolic meaning. Frost and Thomas often took walks toge
