The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

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

Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874 at San Francisco, California and died January 29, 1963 at Boston, Massachusetts. Frost was an educator and poet. He is widely known for his poetry; some of Frost’s famous work includes The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, and Out, Out─. Out, Out─ tells a story of a young boy cutting wood to help provide for his family. He then acquires an injury on his hand by the saw. The boy ends up dying due to the severity of his wound. His family returns to their duties. This poem uses many elements to emphasize death. Robert Frost uses the poetic elements of imagery, figures of speech, and symbolism to illustrate the theme of death in the poem Out, Out─.

Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” is more symbolic of a choice one must make in their life in attempt to foresee the outcome before reaching the end, than it is about choosing the right path in the woods.

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, Frost shows the everyday human struggle to make a choice that could change the course of one’s life. In his poem, a person has the choice to take one road or the other. One road is worn out from many people taking it, and the other is barely touched, for fewer have taken that road. Throughout the poem, the speaker learns that just because so many other people have done one thing, or walked one way, does not mean everyone has to. Sometimes you just have to go your own way.

There are many challenges that one faces in life. Trying to determine which path to take is not always an easy decision to make. In “The Road Not Taken,’’ Robert Frost uses conflict, imagery, and metaphors to illustrate the importance of making decisions and choosing one’s own path, even if it is not always the most popular choice. Sometimes, taking risks can be rewarding and scary at the same time.

It would be understandable to interpret Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”, as a statement of nonconformity or regret. Meaning, choosing the “less traveled ‘road’ in life leads to a beneficial future” (Judkins 66). However, this is not the case, the poem dictates that when there are choices in life, where there’s little or no discernible difference, and uncertainty makes choosing almost impossible. We are often paralyzed by the fear of making the wrong choice. Therefore, what Frost is actually trying to say in his poem, is that the fear of making the wrong choice, acts as an impediment to any choice that should be made, that is why the poem is called, “The Road NOT Taken.”

In life only one choice can be made, and that choice may affect life forever. And the right decision is not always obvious, but the decision still has to be made. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” Frost explains that everybody has to make a choice, nobody can make both choices. Everybody in life will come to a split in the road, and the decision will affect life forever. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874. After Frost’s father death Robert Frost and his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts when he was 11 years old. Frost published his first poem in November 8, 1894 called “My Butterfly. An Elegy”. In 1912, Frost and his wife decided to move to England where he became famous for many books of poems

also tells how it took him a while to decide which road to take and after a lot of deciding he

Robert Frost's poem “The Road Not Taken” describes a traveler facing a choice, he can either choose the road not taken, or he can choose the road most traveled by. He does not know where either road might lead, but in order to continue with his journey, he can pick only one road. He analyses both roads for the possibilities of where each may take him in his journey. Frost's traveler realizes that regret is inevitable. Regardless of his choice, he knows that he will miss the experiences he might have encountered on the road not taken. Frost, uses literary elements, such as Denotation and Connotation, Symbolism, alliteration, consonance, and assonance in order to convey massage.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost illustrates how thinking too hard about a decision that you don’t know the best option to can lead to immense stress and anxiety.

In the poem, Frost indicates that he made the wrong decisions and took the wrong path’s by sarcastically using “making all the differences”.

The great poet Robert Frost was asked if the poem, The Road Not Taken, was about an experience in the poet 's life: He answered that a poem is never about an experience, it is an experience. If you succeed in determining exactly what Dylan meant in “Mr. Tambourine Man,” you will have succeeded in destroying it. This is the song that marks the change where Dylan moves on from the public world of overt political protest songs to a focus on the individual consciousness, which I’d like to argue is another more subtle form of protest. “Mr. Tambourine Man” is rich with expressions of emotion. With a new personal approach to songwriting, Dylan takes feelings that he was perhaps dealing with at the time, absorbs them, and artfully crafts them into mysterious lyrics that are simply enamoring. The song has a bright, expansive melody accompanied by Dylan’s jaunty vocals that is beautifully mesmerizing. The song is about the feeling of being trapped in a miserable existence and the desperate yearning for freedom from an individual’s own personal hell. It is about the universal need to escape one’s troubles, no matter what the means are, as long as it allows you to forget, deal, and hopefully transcend. It has become famous in particular for its surrealistic imagery, influenced by artists as diverse as French poet Arthur Rimbaud and Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. The lyrics call on the title character to play a song and the narrator will follow. Interpretations of the

Can the decision you make ruin everything or can it be beneficial to yourself or your life. In Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken the speaker is battling a choice that needs to be made. The speaker is struggling with which path to take in life. This poem has universal appeal as it deals with contemplation of life’s decisions in retrospect. What makes Frost’s poem

?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.