Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

The thought that first surfaces from Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is that one has not made the correct choice by choosing a certain path, and the juxtaposition of good qualities between two roads. The poem creates an impossible decision between two seemingly similar roads that lead separate ways, leaving a traveler unknowing of where it will end up, and that one may perhaps be more favorable. The reality of the poem is that there is no right choice in which path is taken. The poem's subject is that progression is essential and that any path taken will take one on a road that will leave them satisfied.
Being introduced to the first stanza of the poem, metaphors and understatements are the main poetic devices that make the poem great. The speaker says that "And sorry I could not travel both" perhaps meaning that taking the road less traveled by requires the speaker to leave other things behind, or simply that the thought of not being able …show more content…
The speaker suddenly chooses the other path, declaring "Then took the other, as just as fair / and having perhaps the better claim" in the spur of the moment, as further proof for the impossible choice as it may be a better path. Frost writes "Because it was grassy and wanted wear;" the speaker chose the path that was traveled less often because it looked more inviting. The speaker really means that the chosen path in life that was clearly the more unique path because everyone else was doing the same thing and the speaker didn't want that life. The poet compares a path into a forest and a path in life so leisurely and quaint, even though in life it is a big decision what path is chosen, which is an understatement. In lines 9-10, the speaker decides after he has chosen his path that the other might as well be just as good; "Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the