Collection Robert Frost Essays

h until it bends into "the undergrowth." The author shows man's attempts to tell which path is better by trying to for see what they will behold down the road. Both roads diverge into a "yellow wood" and appear to be "about the same" in their purpose. The first of the two paths is the more common route than the other less traveled path, which "wanted wear." Frost presents a classic conflict- the decision between the common easy path and the exceptional challenging path. Choosing the already known easy path in life many people frequently endure reassures that the outcome will be predictable. While choosing the "less traveled" road represents the gamble of!
             facing a more difficult path in life in hopes to achieve an incomparable and satisfactory life, contrasting the more familiar lives other people take.
             The road not taken delineates man's choice. After vacillating between the two "fair" roads, he finally decides to take the road "less traveled by"; knowing he cannot see where it will lead. Traveling down the second road, the speaker still yearns to travel both paths- he "keeps the first for another day." As the narrator proceeds down the unworn path, he realizes there will be no way he can ever return to the deviation to experience the other route. The speakers utters:
             "Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
             I doubted if I should ever come back."
             Frost presents man's limitation to explore life's different possibilities. The narrator "sighs" at the end of the poem gratified with his choice to take the uncommon road, yet also sighing that he may have missed something. Making "all the difference" by taking the road "less traveled" the speaker becomes a product of his decision. Frost exhibits satisfaction for enduring the uncommon route, but at the same time he "sighs" with lamentation, pondering what he may have missed on the alternate avenue. As successful life's turnouts may be, there is always regre...

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