Road Not Taken : Analysis
In his poem "The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost uses a theme about how the choices one makes affects their entire life. When we come to a fork in the road of life, a decision needs to be made. Similarly, Blanche Farley also discusses choices in her literary work, "The Lover Not Taken". Her work however addresses the decision of choosing a lover to travel with along the path of life. Everyone is a traveler choosing a road to follow on their continuous, irrevocable, journey of life, and there is never a straight path that leaves one with a sole direction in which to head. Frost first confronts the tough decision of choosing a path. He says: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both" (1-2). Frost displays a strong sense of regret before the choice is made, and it lies in the knowledge that he cannot travel both paths. He must choose one or the other. "The choices a person makes in life are ultimately re
We can look back and wonder what would have happened if we had chosen differently, but the regret is often times heavily outweighed by what has been gained. She says, "she liked his hair, / His smile. Finally, there is no turning back after the decision has been made. In contrast choosing Jack, or the already known easy path in life, is reassuring to her because the outcome is predictable. He realizes that at the end of his life he will have regrets about having never gone back and traveling down the roads he did not take. He knows his decision limits him in exploring life's other possibilities. It is often difficult to make a decision because of the thought of what will be lost as compared with what will be gained. But the other Jack, had a claim / [. Once again at the end of the poem the regret weighs heavily on the traveler. Farley expresses a similar predicament when she is trying to decide between two men. The first of the two paths is the more common route than the other less traveled path, which "Wanted wear" (8). Each choice that we make plays out differently in each individual's life.
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