Road_Not_Taken

Road Not Taken The Roads to the Future Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey through life. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem, "The Road Not Taken", has left its readers with many different interpretations. Frost believes that it is the road that one chooses that makes him the man who he is. The choice of which road to take is going to change everything that happens after that path has been traveled, the decision is quite life altering. The structure of the poem breaks its twenty lines into four stanzas. Each stanza contains five lines and the rhyme scheme is abaab throughout all four stanzas. In the first stanza it seems the traveler has difficulty making a decision because he seems to be worries about the opportunity cost, what will be missed out on. There is a strong sense of regret before the choice is even made and it lies in the knowledge that in one lifetime, it is impossible to travel down every path. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road stretches, eventually it surpasses road, taken, life, decision, path, traveler, poem, take, one, choice, about, traveled, frost, every, travel, stanza, roads, makes, made, journey, because, words, unknown, took, through, step, stanzas, shows, sense, seems, robert, risk, regret, realizes, readers, over