When it comes to making a decision, people tend to go through a series of questions before leading to what they believe is the best choice. We tend to turn the opposite way when it comes to doing something that is out of our comfort zone. When being faced with the choice of taking one that is not the majority recommendation, we turn our back to avoid it. In the Road Not Taken, Robert Frost conveys the importance of taking into consideration all the possibilities and outcomes as well as staying open minded along the way. His purpose is to show at times the answer to some of our problems won't be as clear as we would like them to be. At times like these, its best to just step back and re-evaluate what your goal outcome is and what's the best step forward to bring you there. …show more content…
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail,” is a beautiful interpretation of Frost’s poem. Emerson and Frost, both state the form of risks that tend to go hand in hand with these types of scenarios. Risk taking doesn't come easy. I see them as files that don't have enough background evidence to make them well known of. When little people know of what the outcome may be of a particular choice or action, they become uneasy which leads them to going through with a “safer” choice. Although I see this as an issue, due to the fact that you'll now never know how important that choice could of benefited you or not in the long run. Frost writes the experience of someone who has a decision to make between two paths. In lines 9 and 10 it states how both paths travelers equally used. This comes to make me think how the decision that the narrator is making is a big life decision since there is really no helpful influence to draw him closer towards one of the paths. In lines 1-4, Frost
Frost wrote this poem about how a person took a walk and had to choose one path or the other. Both paths seemed equally worn and leafy. However when looking back later the narrator begins to think that maybe he chose the path less traveled.
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
Everyone has a journey to take in life and everyone is on their own individual path. While others may be along for the ride, it is ultimately everyone fighting for themselves and going places alone. Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” shows just this. He uses the simple task of a fork in the road with a division of paths to show how human desolation is real
Frost shows the readers that it is hard to choose something without knowing what will be the result, thus he wants to try both of the options to decide on something, when he says “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ And sorry I could not travel both”. Whole poem is constructed of this metaphor, and every line refers to something in life. In the last part where Frost says, “I took the one less traveled by” he implies the idea that people wish to be different from others, thus they are prone to choose the option which had not been chosen by many other people. Instead of saying that he was having hard time deciding on a thing to do, Frost chose to use the metaphor of a road, which forced the readers to use their imagination to understand the real meaning behind what he
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Emerson. This quote from Emerson is a reason why I don’t take a walk with no destination in mind. I set goals for myself so I don’t become side tracked. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”. These are the words Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. Emerson was an influential writer and poet that is still studied to this day.
The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost describes the dilemma in decision making, generally in life each individual has countless decisions to make and those decisions lead to new challenges, dilemmas and opportunities. In Frost’s poem, the careful traveler observes the differences of each path, one is bent and covered in undergrowth (Frost 5) and the other is grassy and unworn (Frost 8). In the end he knows he can only choose one of the paths, after much mental debate he picks the road less traveled and is well aware that he will likely never return to experience the other. By examining Frost 's "The Road Not Taken," we get a deeper understanding of
Life is built upon decisions, substantial or miniscule, that eventually come together in an attempt to define who I am. Choices made will work to shape my future: whether it be the path that I follow in the end, or what I choose to believe. In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost helps to further illustrate these points.
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost also shows the traveler making his own moral decisions. The traveler values perseverance. At the fork in the road, the traveler takes the less traveled path. The dark, overgrown, and unpredictable path. As he walks along the path, he doesn’t lose sight of what his goal is, and doesn’t even consider going back and taking the other path. His mind is set on taking the more challenging path, no matter how hard it is. “Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” (Frost The Road Not Taken) Frost says, the character in his poem is a representation of his friend Edward Thomas. Robert Frost admires his Welsh friend, because he is known for making decisions and never looking back on them. Although the traveler had originally wanted to travel down both roads, and hopes someday he can, he still chooses to pick the path less traveled by. In those lines, this traveler is doubting he would ever get the chance to come back, and pick between the two roads again, so he is happy and grateful he picked the road that would benefit him, and challenge him the most. Persistence ensures we follow through with our decisions. Being sure, and
In class, we read and talked about many different poems. These poems ranged from being written by Emily Dickinson to Robert Frost. One of those poems that was read and was talked about in class was Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. It has many different meanings. A literal meaning is that the speaker takes a road that is both the same and different from another road.
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.
In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the narrator of the poem analyzes his situation thoroughly prior to choosing his path. His process can be seen in several lines of the poem. For example, his decision begins, “And be one traveler, long I stood.” Similar to making any life altering decision, the narrator takes time rather than rushing in to his path. He weighs the options of each path (decision) as he “looked down one as far as [he] could…Then took the other, as just as fair.”
Frost presents the traveler's choice of paths as a metaphor for the difficult decisions a person must make in life. The divergent paths are the choices to be made at various points along the way. Regardless of how he tries, the traveler cannot see beyond where the path is "bent in the undergrowth" (5). Likewise, nobody can predict what effect one choice will have on his life. The traveler sees the two paths as very similar or "just as fair" (6). As much as the traveler would like to return to the diverging roads, he realizes that he will not get another chance to travel the other path. With maturity comes a resignation that a choice has affected a person's life and there is no going back. He also tries to make the best of his decision by saying that it has "made all the difference." (20).
The message that Frost is trying to get across is that you have options, and you come to that point in life where you must decide. Frost identifies in his first sentence of his poem that reads, “two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” (Frost) Which means that we come to this “intersection” in life, therefore the human mind tries to look down as far as it allows us. Thus, we need to decide, furthermore act, and when we make a choice, we kind of regret of not taking the other option. Frost’s first stanza says it all; “sorry I could not travel on both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.” (Frost) Trying to figure out what you will be doing for the next step is life changing.
The road I chose to not take was to go on family vacations in the summer. Had I gone on family vacations I would have experienced more family time, created more memories, and had the adventures of a lifetime with my family. Being able to experience more family time would allow me to make more lasting memories with my grandparents. I could have made family memories with my relatives which could last me lifetimes. The family adventures could have been memorable and possibly sparked a new career interest.