Power in “The Road Not Taken”
Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” is a poem about the options we are given and the choices we make in life. The way the poem reads make you feel as if you are walking in the woods with the poet and facing the same choices he is. The poem tells you about what the paths look like and what choice will be made. It also takes you into the future in which the man making the decision looks back and wonders if perhaps he should have chosen differently “ I shall be telling this with a sigh” (line 16). This poem serves to remind us of the power in the choices we make daily. Frost starts out by describing where the reader’s thoughts should be. He tells us that the man in the poem is facing a dilemma, he is trying to choose …show more content…
We know he is in the future and the fact that he says with a sigh can mean many things. He could be telling us that he regrets the decision he made to take the path he did. He could just as easily be telling us he is sighing in relief that he choose the one he did and that he would not change a thing if given the opportunity. In the end, what it really tells us, is that after all is said and done, this man faced a decision with very similar looking paths and he chose one. When he retells this story “Somewhere ages and ages hence:” (line 17), he will be telling them that he “…took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” (lines 19-20). Well, we know that not to be true. From what Frost has told us, they were practically the same and had been equally traveled “And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black” (lines 11-12). The difference in the paths in this poem is often what is misinterpreted and leads to confusion. The real point in this poem isn’t the paths, it’s what they represent-and that is
Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” is a poem about the options we are given and the choices we make in life. The way the poem reads make you feel as if you are walking in the woods with the poet and facing the same choices he is. The poem tells you about what the paths look like and what choice will be made. It also takes you into the future in which the man making the decision looks back and wonders if perhaps he should have chosen differently “ I shall be telling this with a sigh” (line 16). This poem serves to remind us of the power in the choices we make daily. Frost starts out by describing where the reader’s thoughts should be. He tells us that the man in the poem is facing a dilemma, he is trying to choose …show more content…
We know he is in the future and the fact that he says with a sigh can mean many things. He could be telling us that he regrets the decision he made to take the path he did. He could just as easily be telling us he is sighing in relief that he choose the one he did and that he would not change a thing if given the opportunity. In the end, what it really tells us, is that after all is said and done, this man faced a decision with very similar looking paths and he chose one. When he retells this story “Somewhere ages and ages hence:” (line 17), he will be telling them that he “…took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” (lines 19-20). Well, we know that not to be true. From what Frost has told us, they were practically the same and had been equally traveled “And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black” (lines 11-12). The difference in the paths in this poem is often what is misinterpreted and leads to confusion. The real point in this poem isn’t the paths, it’s what they represent-and that is