The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost
Robert Frost's poem "The Road Less Traveled" amazingly
first written was not intended to convey certain aspects of what
it is now interpreted as. Life is a road with different paths.
Taking one path over another forever changes the course of ones
life for the good or bad. Though Frost's poem as he told was
about him getting separated from his friend in the woods. It
can't be denied that this poem clearly shows his beliefs, that it is
the road that someone chooses that makes them who they are
today or who they will become.
With the first line opening "And Sorry" already you get a
sense of regret. "...I could not travel both" what opportunities
will be missed? That is why it is difficult to make a decision.
You can't travel down every path you want. It isn't possible to do
everything. ",long I stood And looked down one as far as I could"
Never the less you still have to make a decision in where you
want to go. He looks down the path to where it bent in the
undergrowth, trying to see an outcome. This isn't possible
though, as any choice you make, the complete outcome is never
known.
"Then took the other as just as fair, And having perhaps the
better claim," The other path he looked at, looked really the
same as the other but he thought one having the better claim. If
they both look just as fair, something must make it have the
better claim. "Because it was grassy and wanted wear;" The
next two lines may begin to confuse. "Though as for that, the
passing there Had worn them really about the same," One path
looks like it needs wear to him thought it may not to other
people. He was interested in taking that path not of the majority.
Something he hasn't done before makes him want to experience
it. The traveler then if choosing 'the path less traveled" only
shows his personality. Not following the crowd but doing what
he wants, what he has never done. Experience what is new,
different. To wear the inexperienced down to experienced.
The leaves fallen cover the ground of the path he wants to
take. "And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had
trodden black." This statement again reassures the reader and
also the traveler, this is the path less traveled. Each time you
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. His poems are not what they seem to be at first glance. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.
In conclusion the traveler made a decision, he chose the road that was less traveled as indicated in line 19. Ironically, it shows that the traveler took a lot of thought into which road was to be chosen. He did not regret making the wrong choice, he was frustrated at not being able to travel both roads.
The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual. The speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one and he "doubted if I should ever come back.
“How does the choices we make impact our identity” The choices we make shapes who we become is by making good choices or our identity is on every action has a consiquiseas that something can happens . My idea of the EASY is to have Long walk to Water and the poem the the road not taken I chose the two passages because of the choices they make like hard decisions. In the passage” The Road Not Taken” is that two roads are going to diverge in the yellow woods the passage is from Robert frost. The author in this story makes it interesting to read. The author in the passage has to choose one of the roads in the yellow road the evidence in the passage is “Two roads diverged in a yellow road , And sorry could not travel both and be one traveler
And in the poem, because this was the life decision, the narrator agonize about his path. Yet, at the end he decided to take “the one less traveled by”. The narrator won’t know how his decision will affect his life until it has already changed it. Same thing goes to Christopher McCandless. When he wants to go “into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.” (page 183) He didn’t expect the resolution of his own path. However, he accepted his future and left a note; “I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE MAY GOD BLESS ALL!” (page 199). Lastly, these both literature shares same theme concepts of tragedy. For example, the narrator said “I took the one less traveled by” Because he took the one less traveled by, it could be considered that he probably had to deal with loneliness and alienation. Same goes to Christopher McCandless. When he accidently ate false potato seeds, he realized the “HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED”.(page 189) Eventually he died because of starvation.
in life, like the traveler in "The Road Not Taken", are not to be taken
Frost has used numerous techniques to convey the meaning of the poem to the reader. The journey described here is the universal journey every individual will experience in life. It is the journey of learning and growth, incorporated in the complex and exciting journey of life and existence.
Have you ever been faced with two important decisions? Life is full of options and when when you encounter two decisions you have to choose what path you are going to take. Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” represents two tough decisions and having to choose one and not the other. Robert Frost uses a few poetic devices, such as, metaphor, symbolism and vivid imagery to express and show the decisions we make in life. These poetic devices also help Robert Frost get his point across about the roads.
The choices made on an adventure make the journey more important than the destination. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, a traveler in the poem is faced with two paths which represent two different decisions. The traveler struggles with these two choices, wishing he could just pick both, and if he didn’t like one he could just go back and take the different path. However, when he finally comes to a decision, it makes a huge impact. The speaker realizes this, saying, ”I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” (Frost 20). When he made his choice and picked the one most people wouldn’t make, it changed his life, which makes the journey more important than the destination. The choice he made actually changed the destination ,which means it is more important because it affected the overall outcome.
The persona begins to think about how he cannot take both paths and be the same “traveler”
It makes you feel as if your missed something that could have changed your life for the better. The title the “The Road Not Taken” itself shows that a person will never stop thinking back to their former decisions. One will always think about the chances that they might have missed out on. “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference,” this says that they did not travel the well travelled path. He made the decision based on his situation not others.
The two roads presented in this poem represent difficult decisions we are faced with in life. He uses the relationship between the paths and real life decisions throughout the whole poem. This is an example of extended metaphor, which is used to help the readers understand the analogy between the two. The man in the poem said: “long I stood” (3), which lets us know the decision was not made instantly. It was hard for the man to make a final judgment.
The narrator must choose between two 'fair'; roads, of which he cannot see the endpoints. Wandering between the two, he finally decides to take the road 'less traveled by.'; Yet, like most people, he later sighs with regret thinking of what he might have
The main theme of the poem that Frost attempts to convey is how important the decisions that one makes can be, and how they affect one’s future. In lines 2-3, he expresses the emotions of doubt and confusion by saying, “And sorry I could not travel/ And be one traveler, long I stood”, which explains how the speaker contemplated their decision of which road to take. In the closing, line 20 of the poem further reestablishes the theme when it states, “that has made all the difference”, meaning that making the decision of which road to take for themselves is the important key for a successful future. Frost helps to express this theme by using symbolism to portray a road as one’s journey of life. Using symbolism, Frost suggests that the speaker of this poem is taking the harder of the two roads presented before them, because the road the speaker chooses, “leaves no step had trodden black” (12...
The overarching theme throughout the entire poem is that of choices. The concept of “two roads diverged,” or a split in the road, is a metaphor representing a choice which the narrator must make. Being “sorry [he] could not travel both… [being] one traveler” illustrates that, although he wishes he could see the results of both choices, as seen in saying he “looked as far as [he] could to where it bent,” he is but one pers...