My personal personification on The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. the road not taken to me is an analysis of thoughts on regret and rationalization of making decisions for life. Frost was inspired when coming to a fork in the road. Frost made a big deal about what road to take, even though they looked the same. Once choosing a path, he could not stop contemplating what the outcomes would’ve been if he did infact decide to take the other road. The content of this poem to me seems as if he is standing in the woods at a fork in the road. Both paths are equally walked on and both are covered with fallen leaves and he is forced to make a decision on what path to take. The path he took was less trodden upon and that made all the difference. The fact that he makes up a story about the paths being different reveals his desire for choices and to be meaningful and to also show his personal persepective on life and it's choices. Frost examines whether one can ever be considered superior to another. He has no predictions about the possible outcomes that each path may have or will lead him “…long I stood/And looked down one as far as I could/To where it bent in the undergrowth.” Here it's almost as if he mimics the way us as humans can never know all of the possibilities of making any decisions. Robert Frosts also talks about the daily choices that are made while traveling down the road of life. In the first stanza he introduces this poem by saying " two roads diverged in a yellow wood" This is interesting because it suggests that there are two actual roads, as two unconnected roads. Then he goes on to say " And I could not travel both" This is one of the powerful lines in the poem; because no matter who the contributor is, they work over the feeling of regret, and grief over a missed out opportunity. This makes me think whether decisions in life are really what control a person’s life or if it's just fate, or what is already going to happen whether we see them coming or not. I am able to connect with his idea on making choices and it just became that much more meaningful. “The Road Not Taken” compares the meaningless decision frost must make and the understanding if they are "right" or "wrong" on life decisions an person can makes. "And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as furthest as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth" These three lines in the first stanza I find to be amusing, because he summarized this clear
Choices, Uncertainty, and the Enigma of Decisions Made: An Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” Aracely Rivera Garcia Liberty University Choices, Uncertainty and the Enigma of Decisions Made: An Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” Many people read the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and interpret it as a reflection of choices the author made. To do so, however, would imply that Frost revealed the intended meaning of this poem via the closing line of this classic literary piece, and while that…
Making Choices: The Road Not Taken Rosheda Dillon Liberty University Making Choices: The Road Not Taken Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the narrator in conflicted by which road that he wants to take. The poem is a very simple poem but the metaphor for the road being a choice in his life is not very simple. The road that he chooses to take is the road that determines his path in life. In the poem he is walking on an actual road but it is also a figurative road. He is faced with a decision…
metaphor, it seems as if “The Road Not Taken” gets memorized without really being read. For this it has died the cliché’s un-death of trivial immortality. But you yourself can resurrect it from zombie-hood by reading it—not with imagination, even, but simply with accuracy. Of the two roads the speaker says “the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.” In fact, both roads “that morning lay / In leaves no step had trodden black.” Meaning: Neither of the roads is less traveled by. These…
lonely person in a forest. Besides this, the speaker is always comparing the two roads, which explains how hard this decision is to take and how crucial it could be. Then why would this choice be so challenging if the text itself suggests the protagonist is an individualist? 2 To get a good life (socially and financially), people have to blend in; and if they don’t, they could miss opportunities. In “The Road Not Taken”, the speaker faces a difficult dilemma: Taking the path to blend in or taking…
“The road not taken” in a metaphorical and literal manner there is critical decision to be made. While remorse was the emotion being represented by traveling through nature, the setting was portrayed. The temperament on both poems is alike, lonely and puzzled. Again, while both poems snap a reflecting state of mind, nature serves as the symbolic journey to show life and emotions. In the poem, “The road not taken” the speaker is walking through the woods where he comes to stop as “Two roads diverged…
Making a Decision Walking through life we sometimes miss the small things that count, or wish we could go back and change something we did wrong, thus, reflections on life shows the need for wise decisions. Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken, is about a life decision the speaker is trying to make about which path to take is taking a very long time. Decisions in life can be difficult and time consuming. So, when a person reflects back on the choice made, they want to see it was the right one…
Road not Taken An outsider is a person not belonging to a particular group or community. A sense of being an outsider can emerge from the lack of connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. There may be choices to be an outsider. Being an outsider can also help to define decisions made in life. In the poem The Road Not Taken, the persona is shown to be an outsider through the use of various techniques such as: Tense, Metaphor, Rhythm, Imagery, Ambiguity and…
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a piece of poetry that partakes in multiple signs of symbolism such as “ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”(line 1) and “sorry I could not travel both”(line 2). These two sentences tell me that the narrator of the poem is stuck with a hard decision in life and that he has to choose one. Each road in this poem is a symbol of the narrator’s path or choice to his decision. After the narrator sees the two roads he looks down to wear it bends into the under…
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost made me think about the think all the “roads” people take in there whole life time. It made me think “What if?” The thing I liked about it is that it changed meaning depending on what mood you were in when you read it, if you were sad when you read it means just do what everyone else is doing because if you break away from the crowd you will definitely fail but if you’re in a lighter mood it means that if you break away from the crowd and become independent you…
the importance of choices and interest we should take in our lives. The first writing that I enjoyed was “The Road Not Taken.” This was probably the biggest one I was able to connect with out of everything else. Being that I have never read this poem before I was unsure as to what to expect. Upon reading I realized that this was a poem about reflection and taking a different unknown road. This got me to really think about my career choices and personal choices in life, and how I should have really…
