Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Essay
Sara Gruninger
Professor Delaney
English 104
30 January 2018 The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost states that in life we are faced with many decisions, and these decisions do not always have a clear answer of which is the right path to take. The message of the poem is about life’s choices and making these important decisions. Making decisions is what life's all about. The choices people make in their lifetime not only shape their entire life but depending on how big the decision is can make or break it.
In this poem there are two different roads that the author could've chose to go down, each road being unequally traveled by him. These roads are symbolizing a major life decision that the author has to think out thoroughly. “Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim” this sentence written by Robert Frost in the poem “The Road Not Taken,” proves that he has to …show more content…
Robert Frost states, “And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.” It is hard to make a decision when people are only able to see life so far, so it is impossible to plan his decision out fully. “Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back,” by stating this, Robert Frost shows just how each road would be a great choice, and after choosing his road, he tells himself that he will come back to this fork-in-the-road one day in order to try to see how the other road would be like. However, he comes to the realization that this decision will lead to others and it is not likely that he will ever be given the chance to come back to this certain decision in his life. This also connects to the main message of this poem, that decision making sometimes has an everlasting effect and making the wrong one could be
Professor Delaney
English 104
30 January 2018 The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost states that in life we are faced with many decisions, and these decisions do not always have a clear answer of which is the right path to take. The message of the poem is about life’s choices and making these important decisions. Making decisions is what life's all about. The choices people make in their lifetime not only shape their entire life but depending on how big the decision is can make or break it.
In this poem there are two different roads that the author could've chose to go down, each road being unequally traveled by him. These roads are symbolizing a major life decision that the author has to think out thoroughly. “Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim” this sentence written by Robert Frost in the poem “The Road Not Taken,” proves that he has to …show more content…
Robert Frost states, “And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.” It is hard to make a decision when people are only able to see life so far, so it is impossible to plan his decision out fully. “Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back,” by stating this, Robert Frost shows just how each road would be a great choice, and after choosing his road, he tells himself that he will come back to this fork-in-the-road one day in order to try to see how the other road would be like. However, he comes to the realization that this decision will lead to others and it is not likely that he will ever be given the chance to come back to this certain decision in his life. This also connects to the main message of this poem, that decision making sometimes has an everlasting effect and making the wrong one could be