The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the author exemplifies how our minds tend to look back at our memories and make the small, everyday decisions we previously took seem as though they were great acts of bravery and valor. The author wrote this poem to show how with the passing of time, our memories no longer remain reliable, as they tend to exaggerate what were once insignificant decisions. In the poem, the protagonist comes upon a diverging road and both of his options look the same. This can be seen in the part of the poem which states “Had worn them really about the same,” about the roads. However, later on in the poem when the protagonist is looking back to this whole event he remembers himself making a very significant decision