Dr Dick Tibbits

In “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost leaves a major theme of making choices. The poem is about a man traveling and he comes across a fork-in-the-road. He must make a decision on which way he will keep traveling. One way seems familiar to him. It is by far the safer and easier route to go down. But that does come with a price. The road has been used a lot and may be more difficult to travel down even though it seems easier. He ends up choosing the road less traveled. It did not seem as convenient at the time but he states that it helped him in the long run. Not only does “The Road Not Taken,” have a theme about choices, but it also holds a theme about choosing the road less taken. Taking chances and choosing the road less traveled can have many benefits in the long run.

During class, we discussed Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. At face value, the story seems as simple as choosing a walking path. In reality it is a metaphor for all the choices we make in life and find ourselves justifying later as the best

A motif in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is choosing between two roads in the woods, a theme would be that one decision can change a person’s entire life. The motif is repeatedly said throughout the poem and is a constant reminder that the author chose one road over the other. The poem revolves around that author’s choice to pick the road he felt like taking. At the end of the poem the author states, “I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”, this represents that he took the path he felt like taking, not because it was the one more traveled on, but because he wanted to make his own decisions for himself. And when the author “looked down one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth”, he was

The choices that we make can determine who you are, who you want to be as a person and how people think of you. It can change your life at some point. Every choice, big or small, will influence or affect another person. It is inevitable to avoid. In Robert Frost’s poem “A Road Not Taken” the author is describing hard choices and how those choices define who you are as a human being. Frost concludes, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,/ I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference” (Frost). In that statement, Frost shows that choosing the road less traveled by shapes the individual into a role model who makes hard choices and is a free thinker who is leading people through a new path. In “A Long Walk To Water” by Linda Sue Park, the protagonist, Salva Mawien Dut Ariik, is taking the road less traveled by being brave in the face of danger and war, remaining loyal to his Dinka community and family, while still being friendly to the people around him in the war zone. All these are examples contribute to how choices shape who we are today.

In, Robert Frost’s, a “Road Not Taken” we see both strong literal and figurative meanings within the poem. It helps the reader to understand the decision the traveler is about to make and the importance of making the right decision. Life is full of decisions and there are many times we need to make the correct decision the first time as we may never be able to go back and do it again. The “Road not taken” shows these very conflicts in life while using strong metaphorical meanings.

Choosing the right path is hard when there is a lot at stake to lose. Sometimes doing what is best for you may hurt the ones you love. It is sometimes necessary to take a chance and choose the riskier path to see what is behind the next bend, or corner. The poem, “The Road Not Taken” describes a person having a hard time choosing what path to take. Robert Frost elicits the central idea, theme, meaning, and how the speaker came to his decision by the use of metaphors describing the want for his readers to think through the hard decisions in life. One decision in life can make you or break you. It is all on how a person approaches the situation.

In “The Road Not Taken”, we see the narrator, Robert Frost, comes upon a fork in the road while walking through the yellow wood. He considers both paths and decides that each path is equally well-traveled and they both catch his attention. After choosing one of the roads, the narrator tells himself that he will come back to this fork one day to try the other road. But, he realizes that this is highly unlikely that he will ever will come back to this specific point in time because his choice of path will simply lead to other forks in the road and other decisions. The narrator ends on a somewhat nostalgia trip, wondering how different things would have been had he chosen the other path.

Robert Frost’s poem defines ones elation rotating to understanding. In “The Road Not Taken,” he describes what many people encounter daily with decision making. This poem talks about choices we make by comparing them to a folk in a road that may seem less or often traveled. Many people are confronted with choices in their everyday life, which could affect them long term whether it is negative or positive. The options we decide on can determine what our future and present life holds whether it is good or bad. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, Frost uses a fork in a road to symbolize a road often and rarely traveled. These roads are daily decisions we make each day and are surrounded by consequences.

Throughout our lives we are faced with a number of important decisions, decisions that determine an unseen future. The choices, though often virtually identical, lead to different destinies and often leave us asking "what if?" There are not always signs telling us the way to go or the choice to make; we must find out what lies ahead for ourselves. In his "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost relates to the reader such a choice, symbolic, perhaps of any major decision in life. The traveler in Frost's poem must blindly decide between two similar paths, and this decision greatly affects his life thereafter.

 Each person must make many decisions in their lifetime. Some decisions are easy while others are more difficult. The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in Frost’s life. Frost is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime. Walking down a rural road the narrator encounters a point on his travel that diverges into two separate similar paths. In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", Frost presents the idea of man facing the difficult unalterable predilection of a moment and a lifetime. This idea in Frost's poem is embodied in the fork in the road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker's decision.

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, uses many different poetic devices to convey the challenge of choice. One device used in the poem is metaphor. In life, we are given several choices. Some of these choices are harder than others, and ultimately, we make the decision on which route to pursue. The speaker of the poem is brought to a fork in the road; one road is overgrown while the other is worn and walked over. This serves as an extended metaphor for the common path taken in life versus the less common path. As we are faced with decisions, the fear of change and of the unknown causes the majority of people stay in conformity without attempting to step out of it, as we are shown by the worn

Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken”, delivers an onset of choices made in life, how they are chosen and the consequences that follow. In an informal yet serious manner, the writer tells of a journey in the woods that brings the journeyer to a divergence in the road. The journeyer is forced to decide between the two pathways. The poem’s theme maintains that no matter the scope of a choice, that choice will influence life. The “diverging roads” are figurative of the choices society is confronted with daily. The course chosen will lead the journeyer in a direction, while the other direction will lead to a completely different journey.

“The Road Not Taken” is a poem by Robert Frost that was written as a narrative based on him and his friend, Thomas Edward. Frost and Edward would take long walks together in the woods in England. There were always complaints at the end of their walks that they should have taken a different path. This inspired Frost to write this poem. It talks about great importance in our everyday lives and further suggests that any choice a person makes in life, how small it may seem at first, will always have some sort of impact on an individual in the future.

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost was published in 1916. It is one of the world’s most known poems. There is an immense degree of symbolism and quite a few different interpretations have been offered by different people. One of Frost’s friends, Edward Thomas, was also a poet and he took long daily walks with Frost. It is believed that this inspired Frost to compose “The Road Not Taken”. This poem is about making a major decision when a person is dealing with a dilemma and some decisions are not always easy to make. The speaker chooses to walk down a path that has not been walked down by many. This poem is about deciding between two different things and deciding which could have a better outcome.

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, we are constantly pounded with with the idea of making choices. But what about choices does Frost want us to realize? After closely reading and analyzing this piece of literature I think it’s clear that Frost wants his readers to be more self dependant when it comes to decision making. Taking the road less traveled by is how Frost illustrates this and as we break down this piece of literature you will see that Frost makes his message very clear in his poem.