Everyone has had, or will have to make a challenging decision in at least one point in their life. Some decisions are harder then others and we don't always make the right ones. In the poems "Choices" and "The Road Not Taken" they had decisions to make. Would they make similar decisions or not.
The two poems "Choices" and "The Road Not Taken" are similar in the sense they were both talking about decisions in their life. The decisions Robert Frost and Nikki Giovanni had to make would effect their every day lives. They both wanted to make decisions on their own without someone trying to carve their path for them.
The poems are different, in that Nikki Giovanni who wrote "Choices" was talking abut how we sometimes make choices that aren't always based on what we wanted, but what other people wanted. Those decisions then become something we didn't want to do. In the poem "The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost was trying to make the decision between two specific "roads" in life.
The quote in Robert Frost's poem "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference" supports that the "road" he chose was best decision he could make. Nikki Giovanni's poem "Choices" the quote "If I can't do what I want to do then my job is to not do what I want to do" she talked about wanting to make her own decisions for her self. The decisions other people wanted to make for her were something she didn't want to do.
Robert Frost in his poem had to decide between self vs. acceptance. In the end he decides to take "The Road Not Taken." Which means he didn't care if the other "road" was the most popular because "The Road Not Taken" was the right "road" for him. Nikki Giovanni had to decide between self vs. acceptance too because she had to make the choice of doing what others wanted her to do or doing what she wanted to do. So in conclusion they both wanted and did make decisions on what they wanted and not what other people wanted them to do.
