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Robert Frosts `The Road Not Taken.`

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Robert Frost

The poem is known to everyone as a poem that tackles a person 's decisions in life . At some point , this idea of not conforming to the norms and conventions of the society has become the poem 's popular meaning for most of us . The truth is , the poem has had this image and reputation ever since it became mainstream . However , there is more to decision-making and non-conformity in this poem . More to this , it talks about life and how it should be

lived . It comments on the nature of living : that it is not as simply as one , two , three that it is not all about certainty that it is full of the unknowns that happiness , joy and fulfillment lie on surprising and trying out new things that those who triumphed are those people who are not afraid to try and face the unknown just like the persona in the poem

The poem is narrated by a persona who is in the midst of traveling in the wilderness . It is possible that the persona is not familiar with the route that he is taking . However , he still persisted on going . He was doing fine until he was confronted by two roads that diverged in a yellow wood (Perrines 725 . He seemed to want to travel both roads but he had to make a choice . He admitted to himself that he cannot travel both . At first , he was inspecting the two roads on which...

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