Your life is based on the choices you make? The Road Not Taken .

2008-02-23T16:48:44Z

Your life is based on the choices you make? The Road Not Taken .

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood 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. by Robert Frost "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra "One stanza of 'The Road Not Taken' was written while I was sitting on a sofa in the middle of England: Was found three or four years later, and I couldn't bear not to finish it. I wasn't thinking about myself there, but about a friend who had gone off to war, a person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn't go the other. He was hard on himself that way." this poem by Robert Frost is pretty obvious. A traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to go to continue his journey. After much mental debate, the traveler picks the road "less traveled by." The figurative meaning is not too hidden either. The poem describes the tuogh choices people stand for when traveling the road of life. The words "sorry" and "sigh" make the tone of poem somewhat gloomy. The traveler regrets leaves the possibilities of the road not chosen behind. He realizes he probably won't pass this way again. All sensible people know that roads don't think, and therefore don't want. They can't. But the description of the road wanting wear is an example of personification in this poem. A road actually wanting some as a person would. However: some believe this to be incorrect and believe "wanting wear" is not a personification, but rather older English meaning "lacking". So it would be "Because it was grassy and lacked wear;". To me, the poem is about the layers of self-deception. The first road really was “less traveled by,” but the guy tells himself that they were really about the same and so takes the easier one. That’s Lie Number One. And then, over the years, the guy tells other people that he actually took the less traveled road. That’s Lie Number Two. And then he compounds the second lie by telling people that it “has made all the difference” in his life. To me, the poem has less to do with forging our own way in life and more to do with being honest with ourselves. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with taking the grassy road, is there? However, it is incumbent upon us to admit to ourselves and to tell other people what road we actually took. The important thing is to live an honest life. We all make choices in life, And we might regret them later, Though the character of the poem would have felt the same way if He had chosen the road most traveled. Anyway, He couldn't have gone both ways unless he had a split personality... Right!?!?!?!This poem does not advise. It does not say, "When you come to a fork in the road, study the footprints and take the road less traveled by" (or even, as Yogi Berra enigmatically quipped, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it"). Frost's focus is more complicated. First, there is no less-traveled road in this poem; it isn't even an option. Next, the poem seems more concerned with the question of how the concrete present (yellow woods, grassy roads covered in fallen leaves) will look from a future vantage point. Hmm.... Any comments? Questions? This poem is so amazing Im telling you! It is based on our everyday lives! Because everyday, we make choices! Good or bad, we make daily choices! And it's what life is all about....

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Your life is based on the choices you make? The Road Not Taken .