Decision Making In The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

The first poem, “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost is one great piece. Frost’s metaphorical comparison of the two roads reflected as ways and a journey in life. He

?The Road Not Taken? (1916) tells of someone faced with two of life?s decisions however only one can be chosen. Whichever road is taken will be final and will determine the direction that their life takes. Frost drives this poem by a calm and collective narrative, spoken by the traveler of the diverged roads. Who is speaking with himself trying to convince himself of which road is the better choice. Frost wrote this poem using standard, modern language.

In the poem "The Road Not Taken", starts off with a split in the woods. This split path represents choice. Frost writes in his poem, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" (Frost 1). This line shows the beginning of making a choice, it presents a situation that makes you have decisions to make.

The differences and similarities in “The Road Not Taken”, and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, the differences in “The Road Not Taken” are that poem taken place in a Fall season, on a other hand in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the poem taken place in a winter season. In “The Road Not Taken” a person was traveling by himself/herself, however, in the “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” a person was traveling by horse. In the “The Road Not Taken” during the journey the speaker have to make a decision to choose between two roads that diverged in two paths, he/she should choose one path that leads him/her to life path. In the “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” a speaker likes the beauties of snow, and he/she

In the poem The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, Frost uses imagery, formal diction, a consistent meter and many other literary devices to describe the act of decision-making and how we justify the decisions we have made. Frost also leaves the literal/figurative meaning of the poem up to the reader’s interpretation.

“The Road Not Taken” hole poem was about the roads that represent idea choosing paths of life. The first stanza of the poem had one road that was not taken. “ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long stood”. (2-3) It indicated that he could not travel both roads because he is one traveler. As he stood, he looked down at one of the roads as far as he could. However, walking on during a fall day in the forest remind him of choice that he made. He was reconsider of his choice. This road was compared to his life adventure, curiously, mystery and excitement. The second stanza seems like one road he is keeps moving on. “ Then he took the other, as just as fair/ and having perhaps the better claim,”. (6-7) However, by the beginning

With this, it is important to take note that he saw little to no difference between the two roads (or metaphorically, between two life decisions). It is not until he himself finally picks a road to travel down that he realizes his decision will make all the difference. He realizes that he will never know what the end of the road will look like unless he personally travels down it. In addition to this, I believe that he has come to terms with the fact that regardless of how attractive one road may seem, a positive outcome cannot be guaranteed (hence he states that one day he will recollect his decision with a “sigh,” unsure of whether it will be a sigh of sadness or relief). The integral part of the poem is that Frost can only be sure that he himself made the decision, and his decision would make all the difference, whether good or

In “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost depicts the weighing of major life decisions. In "The Road Not taken" the speaker find himself in a dilemma where has to choose between two roads, and decides to take the “less traveled” one to deal with. While in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" the speaker has to choose between two different worlds and seeks for one that can offer him a life out of the ordinary. Robert Frost uses nature to portray that in both poems depict the situation of making life choices.

The first stanza of “The Road Not Taken” is presented to me by Frost as an introduction to what the poem is essentially about. He does this perfectly by capturing our attention with the first line and presenting us an image of a person standing in front of a both literal and metaphorical road. By the second stanza, the speaker regrets that he cannot take both paths and “could not travel both” (735). With this realization, he decides to evaluate each path. First he talks about how one of the paths may be better than the other one since it was “grassy” and looked better. However, he later

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost relays the message that in life we, as the readers of the poem, have many decisions to make and how we choose to make those decisions, rules our future. “The Road Not Taken” is a metaphor for real life and in real life there are important decisions which, in some instances, can cause immense change. The symbolism in “The Road Not Taken” is the two paths which represent the life of a traveler and all his life decisions. In Frost’s poem, the reader comes to realize that life is a combination of decisions, consequences and fate.

Sometimes in our lives, we have to make important decisions. We either accept or regret our decisions. Decisions come easily to some; while others, they are caught having to choose between something that could lead them to an unknown future. Robert Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize. He wrote the poem, “The Road Not Taken” which was first published in Frost’s collection Mountain Interval in 1916.

Choices are everywhere, some here, and some there, some good and others, not so good. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem written by Robert Frost which is all about choices, and how tradition affects those. In “The Road Not Taken”, Frost conveys that someone who decides to take a different path from the usual, leaves traditions behind and has new choices.

In line one, Frost introduces the elements of his primary metaphor, the diverging roads. Lines two to three expresses the speaker's disappointment with his human limitations; he must make a choice. The choice is not easy, since "long I stood" before coming to a decision. Lines four and five examine the path as best the narrator can. However his vision is limited because the path bends and is covered over. These lines indicate that although the speaker would like to acquire more information, he is prevented from doing so because of the nature of his environment. In the following three lines, lines six through eight, the speaker indicates that the second path is a more attractive choice because it appears as

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” both portray weighing of choices in life. The former is about youth and experiencing life and the latter is about old age, or more probably, an old spirit wearied by life. In both poems the speaker is in a critical situation where he has to choose between two paths in life. In “The Road Not taken” the speaker chooses the unconventional approach to the decision making process, thus showing his uniqueness and challenging mentality while in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” the speaker seeks a life without any pain and struggle but at the end, he has to comply with social obligation, which reflects his responsibility towards the society.

“The Road Not Taken” is a poem that involves a common dilemma faced in every single life. Robert Frost wrote the poem trying to explain to his friend Edward Thomas that he took the best decision in his life taking the road least travel. His friend misunderstood Frost intentions and after read the poem, he took the other road in his life and it made all the difference. Instead of travel to America and be a great professor, Thomas felt the sensation of be an unsuccessful writer and a non-patriotic citizen which help him to take the decision of enlist during the war. After taking the other road in his life, he finishes with his life during the war. The poem creates a connection with the reader because the situation presented emphasizes the life of any person. Every person is forced to decide a path and the decision made it, will always make a difference. The result of a person's character or life is related in the decisions made it during his or her life. In “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost uses different types of conflicts, character versus self, character versus nature, character versus society, to show how the path taken in life makes all the difference.