Poem Evaluation of the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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Life is full of decisions, some minor and some major but one thing for sure is that each decision we make becomes etched onto our souls. It makes us who we are and shapes our future. What causes us to choose one thing over another? Maybe it is our surroundings; the people, places, or things in that decision that guides us one way or another. Our path choice defines us and tells a lot about whom we are and who we want to be.‎ Let us say that we have a choice to go into the military after high school or go to college. Both of the choices are good choices but they will lead you in very different directions in your life. If you chose to go into the military you might become a pilot and serve during wartime. You might face hardships no one would understand unless they also were fighting alongside you. What kind of person would you be with this life path? ‎ The other option was college and you choice to party at school instead of doing your class work. You never make it through college and end up with a job at a factory making a decent living. All choices led to more choices but one thing for sure is that you cannot go back in time and change the decisions you make. The path you chose is yours good or bad. The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost illustrates this concept using a metaphor to symbolize life choices. The first example of this is in the beginning of the poem where the author writes, “two roads diverge in a yellow wood”. Robert Frost is using roads to symbolize two choices he could make.‎ Next, the author uses imagery to express his visual evaluation of both paths. This gives the reader an impression that the two paths were traveled equally by those that came before him, “And both that morning equally lay”. Robert Frost continues to say, “In leaves no step had trodden black”. He wants the reader to know that not a lot of people had walked this path. The

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