![]() The Road Not Taken, Birches and Other Poems, Claremont, California: Coyote Canyon Press, 2010. ![]() We may question why he chose to describe the wood as yellow and the treading of leaves to be black. ![]() The use of colors to describe the leaves and the forest seem to have an underlying meaning. The first and more obvious instance of this is in the depiction of choices as roads. There are instances of imagery within the poem. We also get the idea that the writer is one who is afraid to make any decisions given the further reference to more divergences that may await him further on ”how way leads on to way” (Frost, 9). He at first describes one as having ‘the better claim’ because it had more grass yet he claims that the other path was just as grassy (Frost 9). We can also infer that the writer bears a confused attitude towards his predicament seeing as his descriptions of the two paths have a contradictory connotation. By setting out the implications of taking either path we see that he believes the decision he makes determines his fate. The writer can be seen to carry a strong belief in predestination. In real life, however, we observe that the certainty of future outcomes cannot quite be established but it will ultimately be a result of changing circumstances and our reactions towards them. The message portrayed by the poem is that only one road will lead to a good ending in life regardless of other decisions made along the way by the traveler. This statement might be subjective due to the possibility that choosing the other road could just as well have been a good option. The writer tends to bring in the notion that his choice to take either road may make an ultimate impact on the rest of his life. The fact that he could not quite conclude on which of the two options is better for him shows a relationship to the dilemma in this poem. He was trying to decide whether or not to continue living with his rich family which he had convinced himself to be evil or to die and end the pain of having his love rejected by Ophelia. In Hamlet, the phrase is used to show Hamlet’s dilemma. Connection with other textsĪn interesting connection can be sought by analyzing the phrase ‘to be or not to be’ found in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. We often research to find out more about our options in the hope that such information will justify our actions. This alludes to our common habit of predicting outcomes based on our knowledge or experiences in a particular circumstance. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. Robert Frost Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. The line ‘And looked down as far as I could’ show that the traveler is trying to make his decision using foresight (Frost 9). Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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