The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is about making decisions and choosing paths in life. It discusses how a traveler comes to a fork in the road where they must choose one path to follow, though they wish they could take both. Whichever path they choose will shape their future in unknown ways. The poem suggests taking the less common path can require courage but may lead to personal growth and uniqueness.
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The poem, The Road Not Taken, is pretty clear to me. This poem is related to our real life.
Sometimes, we face difficulties in life and cannot decide what we do in the situation. We would
like to choose both paths, but it is not possible. We stand and look at the different situations, and
it is difficult to decide to choose one path. So,, we should think carefully, because it is our life. We
think after choosing one path we will choose another path, but we doubted we would be able to,
because in life one thing leads to another and time is short. Then sometimes we decide to choose
the path many others have not traveled. It means at certain points in our life we decide to follow
our own path, and not the one that we think we should follow. We want to become different to
others so we decided to choose different path, but it may be harmful for us and then we feel sorry
for ourselves. It's those times in life when we make a leap of faith, and put negative thoughts out
of our mind. When we trust our instincts, suddenly we start living the life we were meant to live.
It's a poem about finding our own way; listen to our own voice, and our own path in life. When we
start to bend into your instincts and follow them our life becomes uniquely our own and when we
are on an authentic path and not living according to someone else's ideals, we have a chance to
be our most successful. It is important to be careful with the time frame. We should be very
careful to choose any path, because we cannot know how our choice will affect our future.
The theme of this poem is decision making and courage but the poet used symbolic language in
this poem. The diverging road indicates confusion in making a choice.
Sometimes a small decision can change our life. The speaker of the poem decided to go on the
path on which a few people have travelled. He is not sure whether he would be able to come
back to the same point from where he had taken start. This decision could be unsafe but to do
something new, someone once makes a unique and courageous decision.