Question

"The Road Not Taken" is literally about a traveler who comes to a fork in the road. Explain how the poem could be understood as a metaphor for choices in life. How do you think the narrator feels about the choices he has made in life? Choose words from the poem that support your answer. How do these words affect the feeling, or "tone"?
This is the poem for you to read.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

Thank you so much

Answer 1

"The Road Not Taken" poem, written by Robert Frots(1864-1963), tries to describe the moment an individual needs to make a decision and he has a disjunctive.

The metaphor he uses in "...And looked down one as far as I could...", implies that no decision is the appropriate one because nobody can assure you the results once the decision is taken.

Change is constant in life. And with change comes uncertainty. Every decision we must make is a risky one. A person must show composure when he or she needs to decide among two or more options.

On the part of "Then took the other one, as just as fair...", we can see that one or the other, the option we take has its advantages or disadvantages. The element of uncertainty is always present. That is why we need to always be prepared and trust in ourselves.

Robert Frost was a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry.