This is a wonderful poem with many different themes and ideas. One of the biggest themes is not being afraid to take a chance. Some of the other themes include, not following the crowd, trying new things, and standing for something. This poem stated that the author ¡°took the one (road) less traveled by, and that has made all the difference¡± so the author is telling the reader that we too should not be afraid to take another path.
             The Road Not Taken is a twenty-line poem written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABAAB. This poem starts with the author walking through the woods. He comes to a fork in the path and is torn by which path to take¡does he take the path that is traveled by everybody, or the one rarely traveled upon? He decides to take the road less traveled by. By taking this path he changes his life in some way unknown to the reader.
             We get the idea that the poem starts out in the fall, ¡°Two roads diverged in a yellow wood¡± (5). The season fall represents the year coming to an end, and everything is dying. When the author refers to fall, might he be referring to death in this case? Might this poem be referring to a religious point of view? Could he be referring to his own death and a decesion that he may have made that makes him feel more confident about his salvation? Another thing the author is saying is that he wanted to take both roads, but he knew he couldn¡¯t. So what he really wanted was the best of both worlds, meaning he wanted to take both roads. There is a common saying about not being able to have the best of both worlds, and it applies very well in this situation; ¡°you can¡¯t have your cake and eat it too.¡± He eventually ends up making up his mind; he chooses the road that was ¡°¡grassy and wanted wear¡± (5). Many people before him had taken the road he did not select, and it is possible that we can look at that road as being the ...