Many people have various poems that they appreciate, but my mother has a poem that is her absolute favorite. Even though she considers The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost as somewhat cliché, she finds it an empowering poem to live her life by. Growing up, she was very independent and wanted to set herself apart from her other siblings. In school when she first read The Road Not Taken, she immediately recognized her connection with it. Frost contemplates which road to take when both of them seem like reasonable options, but ultimately chooses to take the path of the “road less traveled by.” She realized that she could apply this poem’s reasoning to different aspects of her life, whether it was her decision making process or her career path.
