Explication For The Road Not Taken
Every poem comes with a theme and a lesson. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about making choices and how those choices will affect you. In the first stanza, Frost talks about how he had to chose between the two roads. He couldn’t take both. In the third stanza, he talked about how one choice may lead to another. Frost continues in the fourth stanza talking about how the choice he made impacted his life negatively.
One reason I believe that “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about making choices is because in stanza one he states that he had to make a choice between two roads. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both,” (Frost 1-2). This line means that there were two roads that were separated and he is sorry that he could not travel both. In line one, the word “roads” is used to symbolize two choices. The second line talks about how he could not make both choices he had to pick one even if he wanted to make both. This relates to my theme of making choices because the person in this story had to make a choice they couldn’t make both choices they had to choose. …show more content…
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back” (Frost 14-15). In these lines he states that, knowing how one thing leads to another he doesn’t know if he will be able to come back and see where the other choice would have taken him. This supports my opinion on the theme because he knows that making this choice will affect his life because it would just lead him to another choice and then another meaning that he won’t be able to come back and see where the other road would've taken him. Lines 14 and 15 show that making a choice will affect his life because it will have a domino effect because one choice will lead to
One reason I believe that “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about making choices is because in stanza one he states that he had to make a choice between two roads. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both,” (Frost 1-2). This line means that there were two roads that were separated and he is sorry that he could not travel both. In line one, the word “roads” is used to symbolize two choices. The second line talks about how he could not make both choices he had to pick one even if he wanted to make both. This relates to my theme of making choices because the person in this story had to make a choice they couldn’t make both choices they had to choose. …show more content…
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back” (Frost 14-15). In these lines he states that, knowing how one thing leads to another he doesn’t know if he will be able to come back and see where the other choice would have taken him. This supports my opinion on the theme because he knows that making this choice will affect his life because it would just lead him to another choice and then another meaning that he won’t be able to come back and see where the other road would've taken him. Lines 14 and 15 show that making a choice will affect his life because it will have a domino effect because one choice will lead to