Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"" is one of the most famous poems in American culture. Frost's poem is a first person narrative tale of a colossal moment in life. The narrator is faced between the choice of a moment and the repercussions of a lifetime. Walking down a rural road the narrator encounters a point on his travel that diverges into two separate similar paths. In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", Frost presents the idea of man facing the difficult unalterable decision of choosing one way over another, and the inevitable regret of this choice. This theme in Frost's poem is embodied in the fork in the road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker's decision to select the road not taken.
Man's life can be metaphorically related to a journey filled with many twists and turns. Through out this journey there are instances where choices between alternate paths have to be made. Along with this decision comes the truth that the route man decides to take is not always an easy one to determine. Frost writes: "Two roads diverged in a yellow road,/ And sorry I could not travel both""(lines 1-2). The fork in the road represents the speaker's encounter of having to choose from two paths, a decision that will affect the rest of his life. Frost presents to the reader a moment in everyone's life where an arduous choice has to be made. The decision for which path to choose from can be hard to accept, just as the choices themselves are. .
The two paths represent the options man has to choose from. Faced with these decisions, man has to weigh his options carefully to make an optimal choice. Frost writes: "And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth;"" (4-5). At the split in the road, the speaker looks far down both the two paths to see what each of the paths will bring. The speaker's sight is limited- his eyes can only see the path until it bends into "the undergrowth.
