A Road Not Taken

During our lifetime we are face with many decisions that leads on to an unknown future. "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a poem that metaphorically illustrates the important in decision making between two different paths. Robert uses a yellow forked road to illustrate his two choices in live. After choosing our decisions we always think to yourself what if this decision was wrong? Is this the path that will lead me to success? Will this decision ruin my life? Throughout the poem Robert Frost uses symbolism to describe how he chose the path and how he feels about his decision.

In the first stanza it starts off by staying that two roads diverged in a yellow wood. This means that the narrator is standing in the middle of a yellow wood in front of two roads. Then he said and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler. Having two paths in front of the narrator, he wants to travel down both roads but he cant because it is impossible for one person to walk down two road unless he slits himself. The narrator also uses the word sorry that shows that he feels sad and disappointed. Next he said and looked down one as far as I could. It seems like he is just standing there thinking very hard trying to analyze this one path by looking down as far as he could. Finally the stanza ends with "to where it bent in the undergrowth", meaning that he wanted to looked down as far as he could but he could only look down to the turn in the road. It seem to me that he might actually be in the forest at this moment. This could have been just a metaphor of him coming upon a tough decision in his life. The two could be just making a metaphor of where he want to go in his life, and thinking about which route he should take to have a better future. It also seems that he is scared of making the decision of which path to take because he does not want to choose the wrong path that would ruin his life.

In the second stanza the narrator