Have you ever made a decision that was not easy or ventured into uncharted territory? Well, everyone who has ever lived can answer this question with a confident "yes." The everyday "fork in the road" for most people can be as simple as what food to eat for lunch or what to do after work. Decisions have always been the way every person moves on with their lives, and we all have to make these choices in life in order to survive. In the poem " The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost illustrates the conflict between taking the hard road and the easy road, and he conveys the importance behind the decision making process. The reason why Frost wrote this particular poem is still debated by critics, and the true reason may never be found due to the author's death many tears ago. Frost has mostly written about nature and put the reader in a metaphorical state of mind through many of his poems, so the poem may be completely unrelated to his life. I myself believe that every poet has some amount of relevance to his or her poem, and Frost has many details of his life that could be brought into comparison with the message illustrated in "The Road Not Taken.".
The message of the poem "The Road Not Taken" conveys could be interpreted into each of the readers" lives in many ways. We can all relate the poem to a point in each of our lives when a decision was not easy to make. Some of us have had decisions made for us and lived predictable lives lead by the decision-maker. As for those of us that have made our own decisions for most of our lives, our lives might contain a little more adventure. An interpretation of Frost poem might be that the less desirable of harder road leads to a higher reward than does the easy road. It could also be interpreted that the hard road contains the more difficulty or problems. For some people, the road which challenges the individual more brings pleasure, and some people might believe the easy road is the smart, and therefore, right decision to make.
