The Road Not Taken

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.

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Imagine that your making a decision and you are stuck to choose between two things that could change and impact your life greatly. What would you do? What pathway would you take?

In the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, there is a profound message to share with all age groups while aiming directly at the nature of decision making moments. The title itself gives a foresight of what is to be expected from this specific poem. Decision making is a continuous process which never ends, it’s something that is embraced by civilization. Robert Frost begins talking about two roads that diverge in a yellow wood but he obviously cannot pick both, “And sorry I could not travel both” (Frost 2). It is hard upon anyone when it is time to make a decision.

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 Road Not Taken Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, dramatizes the conflict between people and the choices they encounters throughout their life. During the poem’s introduction, the speaker stands at a fork in the road contemplating which path to choose. He ultimately travels “the better claim”(Frost 7) stating he will return to travel the other another day, though realistically doubting he will ever have to opportunity to do so. Yet if the traveler returns, he will do so with a twist: he will claim to have taken the road less traveled. The speaker understands both roads are equally worn.

“The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem about a person with an important decision to make. The narrator starts by telling the readers of a “yellow road”. This represents the beginning of a new season (probably autumn) in his life, and the ending of another (summer). The speaker encounters a fork in the path and really wants to go down both roads at once. He tried looking down one of the roads, however he could only see where “it bent in the undergrowth”(where small plants subside).

“The Road Not Taken” was written by Robert Frost. The poem is about while on a walk he arrives at two paths, and he is not sure which one to take. These two pathways can be compared to life when choosing which path to take. Frost picks the path that not many have been on and then predicts that later in his life he will regret his decision. The regret that he will most likely feel is another example about life, sometimes the path we may think is the best decision turns into the wrong one.

Frost uses several techniques in his poem, but perhaps the most significant is his use of the metaphor. First, he describes “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1). The roads represent the different choices that people have to make in life and how there isn’t always one choice to be made. Each path is an important decision which he must make, so he has to choose carefully when examining each path. When he “looked down one as far as (he) could to where it bent in the undergrowth” (4-5), this represents him not being able to predict and see the future. The forest represents the unknown, and he cannot see or predict his unknown future. One may think that his choice

W.H. Auden’s The Average and Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken both consider the choices that determine the rest of one’s life. Auden explores this concept through a young man’s search for a better future while Frost conversely shows it through a reflection on a past decision. The parents of Auden’s protagonist ‘killed themselves with toil’ in order to grant him the opportunity to discover a profession that ‘encourages shallow breathing’ which puts immense pressure on the speaker to find a career that guarantees their efforts were not futile as ‘only a hero could deserve such love’. In comparison, the subject of Frost’s poem made his choice long ago and contemplates his decision through a metaphorical branch in the woods which offered two paths, despite him ‘looking down one as far as [he] could’ he elects to

A reader must consider the words of Robert Frost in “The Road Not Taken” as carefully as the individual must consider every choice that finds them as the paths of life intersect (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012, p.624). An individual can get analysis paralysis when they think about each and every choice too much. People can “analyze something to death” (Lewis, 2014, p. 517).The individual applies Newton’s third law of motion, “to every action there is always opposed and equal reaction” and this consideration can render them into a state of confusion and indecisiveness as they consider the next step (Sharma, 2016, p. 23).

?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.

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is about a man having to make a decision between two paths. The narrator finds himself at a fork in the road, and considers both options carefully before making a decision. Throughout the poem, Frost uses imagery to frequently display indecisiveness, in addition to fear and regret.

Robert Frost ‘s “The Road Not Taken” the author describes an internal conflict with the protagonist in the poem being in the woods, when two different paths emerge for him to take. The paths are described as looking the same “Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same “() himself there and then hastily chooses a path. The path could be taken quite literally because he describes how the paths look physically. Upon further reading the poem takes on a quite metaphorical approach with the author having two decisions in front of him and the one he chooses will set up a chain of events in his life. The driving force in the poem is laced in a sense of regret for the future because he wonders what would have happened if he took the other road.

In the Poem "Uphill" I was able to effortlessly comprehend that the "road" symbolizes the adventure from birth to death. The obscuring sky foreshadows the end of life, and the "Inn" represents the final resting stop. In addition I was able to understand the connection between the road and the journey because Instead of the street being straight, it is "winding" and "uphill" hinting that the way of life is long and troublesome.