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  • Essay / Analysis of the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost - 680

    Unknown choices in life can be as simple as deciding where to go out to eat or what to wear and as difficult as deciding which college to enroll in and who to marry. The hardest part is not knowing if you made the right decision, because even the simplest choices can shape the future. There are no guarantees in life so every decision counts. The second assumption is as natural to humans as breathing, which makes the decision-making process that much more difficult because it's not just about picking something and sticking with it, there's always the curiosity to know what if? Even when faced with the most difficult decisions, one must live with the choices they have made, which is very similar to what the speaker in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is forced to face. The poem takes place in the fall when the leaves change color and begin to cover the ground. The speaker of the poem is faced with an unknown fork in the road and is forced to decide which direction he should go. As the speaker deliberates, he is "sorry" that he cannot travel with both and this seems to be because he is afraid of choosing the wrong one (Frost 2). Even though he “looked at one as far as he could,” he could not see the end of it (4). Just like in life, it is possible to have an idea of ​​what will happen and we do not know which choices will prove beneficial and which will not. The speaker knows that even though the paths are similar, choosing the wrong path could change his life. Even though he's upset, he has to trust himself to know which one would be best for him in the long run. After dissecting one of the paths, the speaker takes the other path without spending as much time on it. So he is...... middle of paper ...... facing a difficult situation by saying he will come back to it and he seems very adamant about it by the enthusiasm and point of explanation in end of sentence Eventually, the speaker realizes that his hopes of returning are foolish and will probably not come true. Returning to the path will be too difficult because “a path leads to a path” (14). The roads are all connected, just like making one decision leads to making another and eventually it will be too difficult to find your way back to the beginning. It's just like deciding which college to attend. Once you find a school, there's always that skepticism about whether or not you made the right choice, but thinking "I can still transfer" helps you cope with the decision. Once the first year has passed, the reality of the transfer is much more complicated and it would seem impossible to start all over again...