Callan.J's+Favorite+Poem

__The Road not Taken, by Robert Frost __  In //The Road not Taken//, a man is faced with a fork in the road. There are two paths he can choose to take. He knows he can only take one path, but wants to take both. He chooses one path, saying to himself that he will take the other a different day, knowing he may not have the opportunity. But, by taking the path he did, he opened up a world of opportunity. This poem conjures an image of a “T” junction of paths in a forest. The roads are surrounded by trees and the paths are slightly overgrown. One path is slightly more worn, more travelled, than the other. I think that //The Road not Taken// is describing the process and outcome of making an important decision. The narrator of the poem is describing how out of two choices, he took a risk, this risk paid off for him.

This poem appealed to me more than any other that I have read, because I can relate to it. I make many different choices. //The Road not Taken// is really just describing the outcome and result of making a choice.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stoodmedia type="custom" key="4427961" align="right" And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 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 traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Poems - Openshaw