What Is The Theme Of The Poem The Road Not Taken

Have you ever wondered How the choices we make impact or shape our identity? There have been many people that have made the choices to become the great people they are today. One example of this are athletes of the past and present. Another comes from the poem called “The road not taken”. The final example comes from another poem called “Choices”.
As said before, many athletes of the past and present have made miraculous choices to become the legends that they will always be known as. One man that did this was baseball hall of famer, Jackie Robinson. If you don’t know who this was, just know that he was the first african american to play major league baseball. Jackie dealt with many racial slurs and booing from the crowd because of the color …show more content…
both roads are almost the same, as the poem states in lines three through four on stanza two “Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.”this shows a feeling of dullness, as neither road are majorly different , though the narrator bases his choice on the adventures that lie within. This shows that the narrator is in a mere guessing game, where he may be filled with adventure, dullness, or something in between those two. In the end of the poem, the narrator states “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” We unfortunately do not know the adventures that lay ahead of the narrator on that road, but in a way, this is how your choices can and will affect the kind of life you have, or what adventures you will encounter in …show more content…
The narrator states in the first stanza that “ If I can’t do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I don’t want to do.” This in my opinion shows that she has no choice, so she must do what she is told. This shows that she will be doing what she is told for as long as she is told to do it, so she basically has no freedom. If she wants to do what she wants, she must follow the trend that are athletes did with perseverance, by that logic, she must be perseverant and stand up to whoever is forcing her to do her displeasures. That would be her choice of independence, making her free to do what she wants. This paragraph shows that if you want to be your own person, you must make the choice to do it, you can’t stay down and be merely a