Thursday, November 6, 2008

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

We started a poem unit on our English class. One of the three poems that we have read was called The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The poem is about whether if you are going to take a path that is rough, hard, challenging and not taken by much people but would give you a good lesson, or a path that is safe, not challenging, and taken by many people, but would not give you any new good lessons.
"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."

Taking the road not taken by many people would be a hard and challenging choice but if it would make a huge difference in my life(in a good way), I would surely take the harder path.
This poem is quite critical to the situation that I am in right now. I am a highschool student and this is one of the most important part of my life. I have to make a right choice so I could brighten my future. If I take a pathway that everyone else had taken, my future could be possibly safe, but would be sort of boring. However, if I take a pathway that is challenging, I cannot be hundred percent positive of my future, but could be an exciting adventure. Although I still did not choose what kind of path I'm going to take, this poem seems to me that it is talking about what path I should take.

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