the road not taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---
Frost wrote of this because each time a person comes to the point when a decision must be made, it is new to them, somewhere they have not walked before. "And both that morning equally lay, in leaves that no step had trodden black"(513), the leaves that had fallen and covered the path, no one had yet to walk on. He knew that this decision would affect every other choice that he made afterward. It was a path that not many had taken, it appeared the majority had taken the other path, leaving the one less traveled soft with grass. ok the one less traveled by,And it has made all the difference. He chose to do what is not popular and become a writer. What made one road appear to be a better choice than the other is "it was grassy and wanted wear"(513). In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", Frost writes of how decisions he made, or the roads that he took, made him the person he became. in Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay. There is a strong sense of regret before the decision is even made "And sorry I could not travel both"(513). There would be no turning back; it could not be undone.
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