Activity 2.2.1 – “The Road Not Taken”
In this activity read and re-read the poem below:
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
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 kept 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.
Paraphrase each of the poem’s four stanzas into four separate paragraphs using your own words. The teacher has paraphrased Stanza#1 into Paragraph #1 as an example below:
I stood alone for a long time looking down two roads that went in different directions. I wished that I could have taken both, but I looked at one that disappeared into the dense autumn forest.
Bonus- Include 2-3 pictures that connect to the poem.
Try to include a similar rhyming pattern!
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