Monday, May 17, 2010

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

I have always loved this poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. I referred to this poem plenty of times in my life with different situations. The narrator is forced to face a dilemma of two roads he approaches. He must choose between the two, each resembling a different life’s path. He tries to determine the results of taking each path yet he is unable to and is forced to choose one. The narrator describes one of the roads as “grassy and wanted wear” which means he was claiming that road was less traveled. After contemplating each road and understanding he cannot return to his present situation, he chooses the harder and more difficult road to take, the one “less traveled by”. He decides to take the route which is more challenging and acceptable in his eyes then the easy way out in which other people take.

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