"The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost
...ater. The fork in the road symbolizes the choice between two potential directions the speakers’ life could take. The narrator recounts how he was faced with two paths; an easy one and a more challenging one. He looked down the two roads to see what lies in store for him, but could not see very far ahead. This symbolizes the decision making process. When a person is faced with a choice, he/she usually tries to see the advantages and disadvantages that each decision could develop in his/her future. The narrator chose the road less traveled, saying that he will save the other for a different day. However, he realized that he would not come back to that point in his life. He will be stuck with the consequences of this choice for the rest of his life. The narrator believes that if he had taken the other path instead, his life would be different now. “The Road Not Taken” is a first-person narrative. The narrator tells us the he was faced with “two roads diverged in a yellow wood”(1), and he needed to choose between the two. The narrator states that he was "sorry [he] could not travel both"(2), illustrating that though it is impossible to know the results of path not taken, there is a universal desire to know what could have been. The narrator wants to see what both paths have to offer and what he would experience on each. In making his decision, the narrator "looks down one as far as [he] could"(4). The road that will be chose leads to the unknown, as does any choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far as the road stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he cannot see the end result. The path that the narrator chose was not as worn as the opposing path, "Then took the other, just as fair/ and having perhaps the better claim/ because it was grassy and wanted wear"(6-8). The imagery here shows that the majority of travelers, who had come to this fork, took the worn path. The narrator chose the path that was not beaten down. This path was still grassy, so the reader can see that it was not traveled often. It was not the popular choice. "Yet knowing how way leads on to way/ I doubted if I should ever come back"(14,15). The narrator shows the reader that when a decision is made you can’t go back and make it again. One decision leads to a...