Essay on Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken - It Made All the Difference

The Road Not Taken  All the Difference  Each person must make many decisions in their lifetime. Some decisions are easy while others are more difficult. The metrical composition The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in Frosts life. Frost is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime. Walking down a rural road the narrator encounters a point on his travel that diverges into two separate similar paths. In Robert Frosts poem The Road Not Taken, Frost presents the idea of man facing the difficult unalterable predilection of a moment and a lifetime. This idea in Frosts poem is embodied in the fork in the road, the decision between the two paths, and the speakers decision.             Mans life can be metaphorically related to a tangible journey filled with many twists and turns. Through out this journey there are instants where choices between alternate paths have to be ma de- the route man decides to paying back is not always an easy one to determine. The fork in the road represents the speakers encounter of having to choose from two paths a direction that will affect his the occupy of his life ( ). Frost presents to the reader a moment in anyones life where an arduous problematic choice has to be made. There are an abundance of options in life man faces Frost symbolizes this into the diverging of the two paths in his poem. The decision for which path to choose from can be hard to accept, just as the revelation of the choices.             The two paths represent the options man has to choose from. Faced with these decisions, man has to weigh his options carefu... ...e ways. Faced with very similar choices man tries to examine what they have to offer, but a good deal is not able to for tell the consequences. Man can opt to go the common route, which is the more reliable, and have a common life or he can choose the less common route, which is unknown and often difficult, and have a unique life that stands out above everyone elses life. The choices a person makes in life are ultimately responsible for their future, yet at the same time a person can never go back to the bygone and experience other possibilities. It is unfeasible to predict the outcomes of capital decisions we make often it is essential to make these decisions fixed on nothing more than questioning which filling will provide fulfillment. In the end, we reflect over the decisions we have made, and like Frost, sigh, discovering they have made all the difference.