The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

             All the people travel through their lives and they choose the path that would be right for them. Sometimes, all the paths are not easy to take or not easy to decide to go on. There are no easy or straight paths that people can just follow one. Robert Frost had intended his belief in this poem "The Road Not Taken" that the road he chose that makes him the man who he is. There are two kinds of roads. "And sorry I could not travel both" shows that the poet cannot choose both roads to travel. He has to choose one between them.
             However, it is difficult to make a decision because it is impossible to think about future and he does not know what he will miss or gain in which path. There is a strong sense of regret before he makes the choice and it is impossible to travel into every path. "And looked down one as far as I could", the path is unknown to him and he is trying to see as far as he can but he can never see where it is going to lead further. "Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim/because it was grassy and wanted wear/ the road less traveled by", this path has something special and better than other the first path does. It is not for everyone because only few people took this path as their choice. First path is very popular to most of the people, that is why they took the first path and leave the second path.
             All the people have their own personality and they do not like to follow what everyone is following. Some people want to be unique and different from other people and they want to do something that never done by other people. Robert Frost is one of them. "In leaves no step has trodden black", it shows that leaves cover the road and they had been there since they had fallen on. There is no one been there yet because leaves are still looking same. There is no footstep on them.
             "I kept the first for another day/ yet knowing how way lea...

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