文档介绍：《The Road Not Taken》
"The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 in the collection Mountain Interval; it is the first poem in the volume and is printed in italics. The title is often mistakenly given as "The Road Less Traveled", from the penultimate line: "I took the one less traveled by".
The poem has two recognized interpretations; one is a more literal interpretation, while the other is more ironic.
Readers often see the poem literally, as an expression of individualism. Critics typically view the poem as ironic. –"'The Road Not Taken,' perhaps the most famous example of Frost's own claims to conscious irony’ and 'the best example in all of American poetry of a wolf in sheep's clothing.'" – and Frost himself warned "You have to be careful of that one; it's a tricky poem – very tricky." Frost intended the poem as a gentle jab(猛击) at his great friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas with whom he used to take walks through the forest (Thomas plained at the end that they should have taken a different path) and seemed amused at this certain interpretation of the poem as inspirational.
Literal interpretation
According to the literal (and mon) interpretation, the poem is inspirational, a paean(赞美歌) to individualism and non-conformism.
The poem consists of four stanzas. In the first stanza, the speaker describes his position. He has been out walking in the