Introduction The Road Not Taken, one of the most iconic and globally recognized poems by the great Robert Frost. Written in the year 1915, Frost had just completed a multitude of adventures through the forest in England with his great friend, Edward Thomas, someone who too was caught in the middle between two choices: whether or not to enlist in the war or stay home; some say that Frost’s poem had a major influence on Thomas’s decision to actually enlist in the military, he sadly died two years later. Out of all of the themes in this poem, choice is the probably the one that stands out to readers the most. The reasoning behind this is because Frost, being the brilliant writer he is, strategically used examples, symbols, setting, scheme, and
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there are times where we have to stand and make a hard decision whether or not we go one way or the other). The constant back and forth tug that the forest presents to the narrator creates an overwhelming battle that he must overcome. Frost strategically uses this reoccurring theme of man vs. nature in order to help the reader grasp the idea of difficulties of major choices in and throughout our lives. Out of all of the themes presented in this poem, Frost centers in on the topic of choice. The greatest dilemma that humans sometimes face, do they go right or left; doctor or lawyer; one university or the other; all of these choices will eventually have major impacts on our lives. In this poem, the path that the narrator is walking on all of a sudden comes to a split; he has the choice of either going left or right. After debating on which path to take, he finally makes his decision, “Then took the other just as fair and having perhaps the better claim." He chose this path because it was the one that pleased him the most and “it was grassy and wanted wear.” In the end, the narrator feels as if he chose the path that most would never choose, because it was a little more difficult and “less travelled.” Through this decision we can see the type of person he was, and we could also see his personality as well. We can see that he does not like to follow the crowd, but that he likes to critically think about his decision before he makes his final decision; he likes to be independent from the rest of the
there are times where we have to stand and make a hard decision whether or not we go one way or the other). The constant back and forth tug that the forest presents to the narrator creates an overwhelming battle that he must overcome. Frost strategically uses this reoccurring theme of man vs. nature in order to help the reader grasp the idea of difficulties of major choices in and throughout our lives. Out of all of the themes presented in this poem, Frost centers in on the topic of choice. The greatest dilemma that humans sometimes face, do they go right or left; doctor or lawyer; one university or the other; all of these choices will eventually have major impacts on our lives. In this poem, the path that the narrator is walking on all of a sudden comes to a split; he has the choice of either going left or right. After debating on which path to take, he finally makes his decision, “Then took the other just as fair and having perhaps the better claim." He chose this path because it was the one that pleased him the most and “it was grassy and wanted wear.” In the end, the narrator feels as if he chose the path that most would never choose, because it was a little more difficult and “less travelled.” Through this decision we can see the type of person he was, and we could also see his personality as well. We can see that he does not like to follow the crowd, but that he likes to critically think about his decision before he makes his final decision; he likes to be independent from the rest of the