The Road Not Taken

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Many times literary works are talked about and without bias, even though a writer may have created a story or poem to mean something else but the reader response may create in their own mind a meaning and disapprove of the author meaning. From time to time we rather take paths that are not right for us rather than taking the one we like better, all because someone else thinks we should travel down that path, maybe setting goals in life that are not your own choice, choosing friend that aren’t right for us or just making choices just to fit in with others. Sometime we have the need to let go of fear and travel the path we prefer to take. When I stop to about life it’s self I wonder did I take the right or wrong path through life from the beginning until to this very point where I am now. As I begin reading this poem I allowed myself to connect and take the journey through the wood taking the path with writer. What really captured my interest to this poem being able my imagination to run wild thinking about the path I have taking in life. Other reader may read this poem to find o...

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