Comparison: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni

Choices are always inevitable in our lives. Both of the poems "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni talk about how different choices can influence everything. They have many similarities, yet also many differences. In "The Road Not Taken", it explains that life decisions have to be made at some point of our lives. Throughout the story, there is a pessimistic theme where the author regrets his decision on choosing the wrong path, imagining what would have happened if he had chosen the other path instead. As the old saying goes, too many choose to take the path more traveled given it would seem to be the easier one to traverse. Nevertheless, for Frost, he chooses the one less traveled. However, people often tend to learn more in difficult situations. After all, failure is the mother of success. In "Choices", the overall impact is that of reconciliation to whatever life offers. It seems there is only one choice and that is accepting one's fate. However, at the end of the poem, there is a note of defiance in the cry of a human being; this is the only way a man differs from an animal. Humans are always full of greed; we always want whatever we are not able to possess. Despite their entirely different situations, the authors, in fact, have this sin called greed in common. In "The Road Not Taken", the author regrets his decision on choosing the path less taken; In "Choices", the author resents her misfortune. Unfortunately, neither regret nor sorrow will change anything, The only thing we can do is to cherish what we have and ignore what we do