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“The Road Not Taken,” is one of Robert Frost’s most well known poems. ... Evidentially, he does make a decision, hoping that he may be able to come back to this place in the road again, yet not knowing if such an opportunity will ever be possible. ... In "The Road Not Taken", Frost presents the idea of the speaker facing the difficult, permanent choices that must be made at the moment and in a lifetime. This idea in Frost’s poem is personified in the fork in the road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker’s decision to select the road not taken.
The speaker relies on a metaphor in which the journey through life is compared to a journey on a road. As the speaker is walking down a rural road he comes to a point where “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1). Although the road divides into two separate paths they are both similar paths. ... The fork in the road represents the speaker’s need of having to choose from two paths and the direction that will affect the rest of his life. The route that the speaker chose to follow was not easy to determine as he states “long I stood”(3). ... Yet, the choice is not easy. ... At the split in the road, the speaker looks far down both paths to see what each of the paths will bring, but the speaker’s sight is limited because his eyes can only see the path until “to where it bent in the undergrowth” (5).
Approximate Word count = 1219
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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