Road Not Taken Annotation
“You must make your own way and create your own road by the steps that are meant for you to travel.” An American poet Robert Frost wrote a poem titled, “The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost”. This poem is inspiring to many people. It is written in modern language and in first person. There has been much confusion as to what the author was truly trying to portray in the poem and there are several interpretations one can gather from this poem. Frost begins the story introducing the main metaphors in the story which were the two road both diverged and worn.
The poem suggests that the traveler must pick a road which describes the choices we must make in life especially when our lives are at a crossroads. The poem is compiled of four stanzas …show more content…
It is important that we all think individually about the roads we take and not be followers of others such as one of the lines explained “the road more often traveled”.
It has been debated that taking the road less traveled helps you find your own way. You have to write your life’s story. Choose wisely and create your own reality.“Per Robert Faggen, the suggestion here is that “experience alters the traveler”: The act of choosing changes the person making the choice.” He states it was reinforced in the next two stanzas by stating, “knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back”—the doubt not only that he might return again to the same physical spot, but that he could return to the crossroads as the same person, the same “I,” who left it.”
In reading this poem one may understand that we all make decisions so that our existence is not a waste. The choices we decide to make in our lives help to mold us into the people we are meant to be. We may at times think about the choices we could have made and continue wondering if we made the correct choice but choosing different road. It also can be described as the writer showing a reflection by showing a sigh of relief that he did not follow the
The poem suggests that the traveler must pick a road which describes the choices we must make in life especially when our lives are at a crossroads. The poem is compiled of four stanzas …show more content…
It is important that we all think individually about the roads we take and not be followers of others such as one of the lines explained “the road more often traveled”.
It has been debated that taking the road less traveled helps you find your own way. You have to write your life’s story. Choose wisely and create your own reality.“Per Robert Faggen, the suggestion here is that “experience alters the traveler”: The act of choosing changes the person making the choice.” He states it was reinforced in the next two stanzas by stating, “knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back”—the doubt not only that he might return again to the same physical spot, but that he could return to the crossroads as the same person, the same “I,” who left it.”
In reading this poem one may understand that we all make decisions so that our existence is not a waste. The choices we decide to make in our lives help to mold us into the people we are meant to be. We may at times think about the choices we could have made and continue wondering if we made the correct choice but choosing different road. It also can be described as the writer showing a reflection by showing a sigh of relief that he did not follow the