If By Rudyard Kiling And The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

There are many variants of choices we have to make in life, some are nugatory and facile choices to make, while others are hard and may transmute our lives thoroughly. In the poems “If” by Rudyard Kipling and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, each poet captures the essence of how consequential choices are. Kipling takes a more literal way of exhibiting how choices affect us while Frost shows choices in a more symbolic and consequential way that makes a reader authentically celebrate. " If" revolves around the idea of a father telling his son to keep his head while those around him loose theirs, and as they may endeavour him into to making choices that are not honourable. The father tells his son if he is able to make honourable decisions then he will genuinely become a man, and then the earth and everything in it would be his. "The Road Not Taken" takes a different approach as the speaker has to make a choice of two paths in the forest. One of the paths seems more new, and unfamiliar to take while the other …show more content…
"The Road Not Taken" revolves around a man who has to make a decision that will forever change his life. He is scared of making this as he had doubts such as "if I should ever come back." (15 Frost) . But when he finally made this decision on his own and faced the consequences that came along with it. Whereas in "If" the son isn 't really put in a position where he can make his own choice but is instead told what to . What his father told him may or may not have made a huge impact upon him but if he follows every thing his father says he will lead a lead a life of humility and stoicism as his" is the Earth and everything that 's in it/ And---which is more---you 'll be a Man, my son!" (27-28 Kipling), as his son will live an honourable life, with choices that wouldn 't be