"The Road Not Taken in the Choices of Life" I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. (Frost 1-5) On the surface, Robert Frost's poem is a story about a walk on a wooded road, but it had deeper meaning to him and how he feels about the road. Also, the poem has a universal meaning about life and the choices it presents. Further, the poem is magnificently written in Frost's own created rhyme style. Lastly, a sigh might just be a sigh to some, but in this piece it means much more to Frost. Frost's 1916 poem The Road Not Taken is an example of how Frost writes poetry enthralling the reader with a grand opening and an unexpected ending that must be thoroughly analysed.
Robert Frost, American poet
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English: The stone covering Robert Frost's family ...Frost wrote The Road Not Taken while living in Gloucestershire, England in 1914 though he was an American citizen. His friend Edward Thomas and he would often go on walks so that Thomas could show him special plants or sights. When Thomas would choose a path, it was certain that every time he would regret the choice he had made sighing that they should have taken a better direction (Bannered and Shefali 1). When Frost wrote this he supposedly pretended to carry himself as Thomas just long enough to write the poem. Furthermore, Frost first wrote the poem as almost a joke for Thomas. Later it held more value for him though, as an example of life choices. The Road Not Taken is literally a story about a walk on a road one fall morning. The title even tells of the idea that a choice...