Journal 2

Jordanna Rosen

Week 4 Journal 2

Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”

            The first verse details two roads diverging and a traveler is standing at the end, and he must decide which road to take. Already the reader can note the allegory of the road. A road diverged represents the different paths we have the opportunity to take, to wherever we decide to go in life. At the age of understanding we are able to begin choose our life’s path, weather we choose to stay on that road or not. The roads thus symbolize life itself and the choices we make. Being alone, the traveler must make the decision on his own, of which road to walk down. It demonstrates how the decisions one makes for their own life should be down in solitude, so that our choices are pure of heart, the choice to be what we want to be.

            The first road he looks down until he cannot see the road any longer in the undergrowth and almost dreary image. The narrator takes the other road instead, the better claim (Frost, Verse 2), because it was alive and grassy. The likely hood of choosing either road was fair and even, with no bias. Then, soon realizing that life will keep moving, and beginning to doubt the idea of ever turning back. The further forward the traveler moves on with life the less likely he is to look back, and move in a different direction. Showing the clear connection to the path taken, the righteous path. Looking back in the future the narrator will able to realize the importance of that right choice. By choosing the road the road that was less traveled by the narrator can see how that has made him out to be who he was meant to be. The repetition of the first line in the last verse shows again the importance of the image of the paths. By choosing his own path the narrator is sure of his journey weather there is a final destination or not. “And that has made all the difference,”(Frost, Verse 4).