“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” (Napoleon Bonaparte) In life, decisions we are always faced with decisions: what school to go to, what to eat, where to shop, where to live etc.; most of these decisions are small and do not have very much risk behind them. Then there are the life changing decisions that may impact your life forever like: who to marry or what career path to take. Decisions can have a huge impact on one’s life and there are often times we make one decision and wonder what the outcome would have been if we would have chosen another. In Robert Frost’s, “A Road Not Taken, a traveler walks a road that eventually splits into two paths and must decide which path to take The path
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The author’s tone helps understand the meaning of the poem. He speaks with gloominess and uncertainty wanting to take both paths. He regrets he has to make a choice and wants to be able to split himself into two so that he can take both routes “And sorry I could not travel both” (Frost). This is not only a decision about choosing one path over another but a major life decision and the speaker could not decide easily. “Long I stood” (Frost).
He looks at the two paths and tries to examine them, hopefully to find a hint as to which road to take. It is always difficult choosing one thing over the other because there is thought about that is missed out on. Just like choices that have to be made in life lead to the “unknown”, so does the path the speaker must take. “And looked down one as far as I could” (Frost). Decisions have to be made even though there is no way of knowing the outcome of the decision.
The speaker describes the second path as more appealing than the first, because it has not been traveled on. “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (Frost). Just because everyone else makes decisions based on certain things does not mean to do the same. Sometimes going the opposite way or choosing a different decision from the normal, will actually work out the same if not better. The speaker states that both paths are really the same, “And both that morning equally lay, in leaves no step had trodden black”
The author’s tone helps understand the meaning of the poem. He speaks with gloominess and uncertainty wanting to take both paths. He regrets he has to make a choice and wants to be able to split himself into two so that he can take both routes “And sorry I could not travel both” (Frost). This is not only a decision about choosing one path over another but a major life decision and the speaker could not decide easily. “Long I stood” (Frost).
He looks at the two paths and tries to examine them, hopefully to find a hint as to which road to take. It is always difficult choosing one thing over the other because there is thought about that is missed out on. Just like choices that have to be made in life lead to the “unknown”, so does the path the speaker must take. “And looked down one as far as I could” (Frost). Decisions have to be made even though there is no way of knowing the outcome of the decision.
The speaker describes the second path as more appealing than the first, because it has not been traveled on. “Because it was grassy and wanted wear” (Frost). Just because everyone else makes decisions based on certain things does not mean to do the same. Sometimes going the opposite way or choosing a different decision from the normal, will actually work out the same if not better. The speaker states that both paths are really the same, “And both that morning equally lay, in leaves no step had trodden black”