The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost explains  the forks in the road of your life decisions. Robert frost uses two roads in a yellow wood as an extended metaphor to describe the times that you must make a decision that will affect you in the future. In this poem Frost describes how sometime there's no turning back and, "Yet knowing how way leads on to way, i doubted if i should ever come back." Frost explains in his poem that the road more taken by is easer and less risky. however he also explains that the road less taken by is more beautiful and that taking it, "has made all the difference."

I picked this poem because i understood it the first time i heard it and can compare it to my own life. The thing that i thought most about after reading this poem was one of the biggest decisions that anyone has to make, what do i want to have as my career? There are some paths that i could take that i would enjoy and be satisfied with such as becoming an architect or a lobbyist but these are not my dreams. My dreams would be the road less taken by and would be fare harder more risky. If i followed my dreams i would have to work hard at them and never give up but be prepared for failure. I still don't know what path i will take but i will always remember this poem and the last stanza from it, "i took the one less traveled by, and it has made all the difference."