Showing posts with label Poem Essay. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Road Not Taken


            In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the protagonist represents a man stuck between decisions. At the end of the protagonists life, he wishes that had had a more exciting life, and taken a road that had made a deference.
           The protagonist comes upon in the first stanza "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" sowing the crossroad the protagonist has to face. Then in the second stanza it says "took the other one, just as fair," shows the protagonist made a decision, but a decision between to like roads. In the last stanza "I shall be telling this with a sigh" shows the protagonists regret. I infer that the man wishes he could have lived a more  adventurous life and "took the one less traveled by."   
           The man that makes a decision but in the end wishes he had taken the more adventurous one makes me think deeper about humanity because i think every person has regrets and stretches the truth, revising their own history to make themselves feel better about the choices they have made.