- Some people find poetry more challenging than reading a book. Is poetry challenging to you? Why or why not? What is it about poetry that many people find challenging?
The Road Not Taking
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.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
This is a poem by my favorite poet, Robert Frost. To answer the question above, I think that understanding poetry (personally) is not that hard. Sure there are some poems that might leave me stumped but overall I think they’re fairly easy to understand. I think that people get frustrated with the words and rhymes and they forget the overall meaning of the poem. He’s talking about how he came upon two paths on a yellow road. He knew he was only one person/traveler and felt bad. He compares the two paths and one seems more appealing then the other. But he said he took the road less traveled and it made a difference for him.
Do you get frustrated when it comes to poetry? Answer down below.