The Road Not Taken

Decision making is a common component in everyday life. When a person makes a decision, they consider their options, reach a resolution, then commit to them. But as time passes, there are those who regret their choice and wish to go back to change their decision, while some people are satisfied with their chosen path. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, the author describes a decision making process between traveling down one road or the other. Throughout the poem, Frost uses several poetic devices, including metaphor and enjambment, to help bring his theme across: it’s important to make the best possible decision because it can only be made once, in a way that encourages readers to think before they act.

Paths. Decisions. The. The following are the results. These concepts are portrayed in "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "The Road Less Traveled" by Lauren Alaina.

The tone of this poem is what makes it so openly interpreted. It can be used as motivation for almost any path one decides to take in life. The verse “Yet knowing how way leads on to way/ I doubted if I should ever come back” can be related to by anyone who has ever experienced having to make crucial decisions in life. Life is not easy, and it is not worth our precious time to be whimsical in our decision making. Nobody wants to have to backtrack, and this poem portrays that rigorous ‘keep your head forward, shoulders back and your eye on the prize’ mentality that has been part of our culture as Americans for so long. These two very salient lines of the poem also do well to instill an element of mystery and air in the mind of the reader. It is human nature to think what could have been ‘if only I’d done this’ or ‘If that never

Though he may want to try it out, he comes to terms with the fact that there is no turning back and that: “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back” (Lines 14,15). With these lines, Frost uses the tone of regret and shows that it is the speaker’s original choice that led him to his own new road. To carry on that tone of regret, in the sixteenth line the speaker states that he: “Shall be telling this with a sigh” (Line 16). By saying this, the speaker unintentionally shows that he is nostalgic on the decision of his path. If he were to be told which path to take, he may not have been in the position of regret. While the speaker was unsure of his road in the beginning, he also ended up being unsure of if he could take the other path later on. Yet again, Frost shows that the speaker had to be self reliant in his decisions, showing that he is alone in the world.

Regretfully knowing he cannot walk both paths he ends up taking the route that he will later tell others that it was the road less traveled. Making this decision whether it is physically down a road, or the road to his future he tells us he is probably never coming back. B. The primary theme of this poem is about choices.

On the last two lines, an extended metaphor was used, “Yet knowing how way leads on to way”, “I doubted if I should ever come back”. These last two lines of the third stanza, heightens the attention of readers that he hopes that he could try the other path as the traveller knows ‘how one road can lead to another’. Also, the traveller is having doubts as it is impossible to retrace steps as other choices or decisions can lead to other options in life. The third stanza raises the awareness to readers as he decided to stick with the decision that he made but still with a bit of regrets.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is an infamous poem written in 1916. In this poem, the persona is faced upon a significant decision. The setting takes place in the fork of a road in the middle of the forest, and the character must decide which path is most beneficial. It is quickly evident that as desirable as it may be, both paths cannot be traveled, and so the decision that is taken must be done with utmost consideration. After weighing in the aspects of each path, Robert Frost emphasizes that although life is full of decisions, each outcome will always be unique, and so one should always trust their inner instinct when deciding. This is often first observed in the title of the poem, which reflects on the path that was neglected. The meaning

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost starts out with the speaker facing a dilemma. He must make a decision about which path to take. Frost utilizes metaphor and tone to develop his theme about having to make decisions in life, whether they be something as major as choosing a career to pursue or something as simple as choosing what movie to see or what to have for dinner. The speaker states, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

Furthermore, I have took a carefully attention to the final stanza of The Road Not Taken, and realized the final two lines of the poem contains a deeper meaning than their literal meaning. The word “difference” in line 20 is a wonderful description; we usually feel the difference because we like to compare our lives with our expectations. Like myself, I ask myself sometime about all the past decisions I have made, and think about the different lives if I had not done this or that. Because we all had the imaginational “us”, then we all had the “difference”, we regret or rejoice. But in fact, they are only our imaginations; the only true paths those existed are the path we are on today, they do not change whether we liked them or not.

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

The poem depicts a man was walking in a forest, down a path one autumn morning and arrived at a fork in the road. He studied the paths, looked intently down the first, then walks down the second even though there was no noticeable difference in the roads as shown by the verse "and both that morning equally lay" line 11. The sojourner saw that neither path had been frequented "in leaves no step had trodden black" line 12. As he went down one path he thought he would like to return and try the other path, but realizing it is improbable because he knows "way leads on to way" each choice leads to another new choice. He acknowledges that in the future he would remember with emotion "I shall be telling this with a sigh" remembering with regret of what was down that other path.

Lisa Wingate once said, ‘’The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have lead. The quote means that it is hard to make the decision on witch path to take because they both lead somewhere different and you might not want to go to that different place. This statement is true because you never know what will come before you. Both the ‘’Road not Taken’’ by Robert Frost and ‘’Untraveled Road’’ by thousand foot Krutch supports the statement by Lisa Wingate.

The poem “The Road Not Taken” is a piece of literature written by the American poet Robert Frost. Its genre is poetry. It is considered poetry because of its structure. It has a distinct numbered group of lines in verse normally called stanza.

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).

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… In his iconic poem, "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost investigates the complexity of decision making.  Children learn early on that there are always choices to be made, they learn what is right from wrong, and they learn how to gauge their own moral compasses.