"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost and it was written in 1915. It consists of four stanzas of five lines. It is my favorite poem because it is very relatable.
The poem tells us a story about decision making. It argues about the importance of choices that we make in every journey of our lives. At the beginning, there were two roads and the narrator must choose a path, just like in our life, it is our decision to choose which one will be better for us. The road in the poem is the metaphor of life, while the fork on the road metaphorically represents the choices we make to determine the course of our lives. Every day we make decisions even if big or small that will make an impact in our life. We cannot take two roads at the same time. Once we decide, there is no turning back. We cannot turn back time and redo it. It is up to us to make it worthy and make a difference. The poem tells us that all of our choices shape the path we take in life. We learned from the decisions we made and also from the people around us, just like the situation of the character in ‘The Road Not Taken’.
Reason why other people travel the well known road;
Family choice
Our friends already took that path (Copying)
Pressured by community
Society demand, and many more
First, Nowadays our parents usually decide what path we need to take, for example todays in demand jobs was Police, Teacher, doctor & etc. because of a reason it had a big salary. So their child take that risks for there parents satisfaction.
Second, our friends already took that path so we are being pressured to do the same thing as they did. In the middle of the decision we made we realized that that path is not suit to us,ended up by quitting and finding another path. Time & Days are being wasted.
Third, pressured by the community for example, we have a lot of neighborhood who always made decisions by comparing everything, and you are being pressured to overthink things and ended by, choosing the difficult path.
Lastly, What I stated at first relatable to these. Because of society demand even if we don't like it or we don't want it we are being pushed to do it. Because we need it for survival.
I really like the poem written by Robert Frost, it teaches us how to decide and make choices on our own, even if its risky, full of struggles but because its our own choice, our free will we become motivated to pursue to achieved our ultimate goal. I loved the line "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference".
Success is in our hand, enjoy life don't make things to complicated. I know I'm not professional in terms of criticizing a written works, but I'm very happy sharing my own thoughts about the poem. If you had any comments or additional thoughts of the poem i appreciate it so much. Actually Robert Frost is one of my favorite writter, Actually he wrote a lot of written works and all of them are very inspiring. Thankyou so much #Rusty for the opportunity to join the read cash i learn and discovered a lot.
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