How is the poem 'The Road Not Taken' about the choices one makes in one's life?
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The Road Not Taken is an ambiguous poem that allows the reader to think about choices in life, whether to go with the mainstream or go it alone. If life is a journey, this poem highlights those times in life when a decision has to be made. Which way to go?
The Road Not Taken is all about what did not happen - this person, faced with an important conscious decision, chose the least popular, the path of most resistance. He was destined to go down one, regretted not being able to take both, so he sacrificed one for the other.
Ultimately, the reader is left to make up their own minds about the emotional state of the speaker at the end. Was the choice of the road less travelled a positive one? It certainly made all the difference but Frost does not make it clear just what this difference is.
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The writer was so confused that which road should he take because the both roads looks same. But the writer choose second one because it seems less travel. He left the first road for another day. The last two lines contains the theme of the poem. It means that the poet choose one kind of career though he wanted to choose the other and these had made all the differences in his life. He now thinks that if he had taken the other one, life would perhaps have been different.
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