There Is A Fork In Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
There Is a Fork in The Road
In life, we come to the proverbial “fork in the road” and need to decide which lane we will follow. Sometimes we go right, and other times we may go left. In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, he describes the journey an individual takes when deciding which road to travel, and which road he may return to travel another day. In his stanza “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost, p. 1), we can determine that both portray hope and invite us to follow them towards our future. Your option is limited, and coming back to travel the unchosen path may be only a dream. The speaker is leading us down a road to self-awareness, showing us that the path we follow is not reversible, our backward steps are actually …show more content…
17) we must decide on a path, choosing wisely, the action will follow us as we travel the road. Our experience will enable us to determine a better direction when we arrive at the next fork in this road called life. Frost’s stanza “I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:” (Frost, p. 16/17) shows how the speaker contemplates how the roads we follow will create the stories we tell of our travels. Our lessons we learn; which in turn lead to the parables we will extol upon those we encounter through life; those we hope to encourage to execute the right advance, at the forks in the roads they will …show more content…
18), your movement will create your destiny. How do you know? Do you take the road most recently traveled? Sometimes this will seem to be the obvious, most reasonable option. Or do you create a different journey like Frost did and select “I took the road less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference” (Frost, p. 19/20)? Each fork in the road of life will lead you away from today, towards tomorrow and will change your destiny. Travel wisely, knowing that the “spot” is not the option, it is the footsteps you take going forward, never bringing you back to this moment in
In life, we come to the proverbial “fork in the road” and need to decide which lane we will follow. Sometimes we go right, and other times we may go left. In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, he describes the journey an individual takes when deciding which road to travel, and which road he may return to travel another day. In his stanza “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (Frost, p. 1), we can determine that both portray hope and invite us to follow them towards our future. Your option is limited, and coming back to travel the unchosen path may be only a dream. The speaker is leading us down a road to self-awareness, showing us that the path we follow is not reversible, our backward steps are actually …show more content…
17) we must decide on a path, choosing wisely, the action will follow us as we travel the road. Our experience will enable us to determine a better direction when we arrive at the next fork in this road called life. Frost’s stanza “I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:” (Frost, p. 16/17) shows how the speaker contemplates how the roads we follow will create the stories we tell of our travels. Our lessons we learn; which in turn lead to the parables we will extol upon those we encounter through life; those we hope to encourage to execute the right advance, at the forks in the roads they will …show more content…
18), your movement will create your destiny. How do you know? Do you take the road most recently traveled? Sometimes this will seem to be the obvious, most reasonable option. Or do you create a different journey like Frost did and select “I took the road less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference” (Frost, p. 19/20)? Each fork in the road of life will lead you away from today, towards tomorrow and will change your destiny. Travel wisely, knowing that the “spot” is not the option, it is the footsteps you take going forward, never bringing you back to this moment in