The Path He Chose
Tabitha J Smith
ENG 125: Introduction to Literature
Instructor Sharon Hanscom
May 21, 2014
The Path He Chose
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost describes for us that there are many decisions in life that we as human beings have to make. No one ever knows what lies in front of them, we just have to live with the choices we make. The point is how we deal with our actions and the consequences for those actions. No one is perfect in this world, and when we learn this we will live in a better world.
The reason this is the best choice for me to write about, because it hit home. I had chosen the path not taken in my life. The path was hard, but it is what made me who I am today. I have made my share of mistakes and I am dealing with the consequences for my actions. I have included the poem below.
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear; though as for that the passing there. Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh. Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”, (Frost 1916).’
When trying to understand what type of an approach the writer wrote this poem I chose an archetypal approach. The reason I believe this, is because the way Frost describes the roads and the choices he had to make. In this poem he was trying to accomplish a goal of deciding which
