The Road Not Taken
-Robert Frost
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.
In the movie Taken the daughter who
got taken had two choices either stay
with her friend or call her dad to tell
him the truth. This is similar by having
two difficult choices ahead of your
future. Thinking through the difficult
choices. Also choosing one of the
choices may not always be what
others would do. The line that said “I
doubted if I should ever come back.” I
thought it meant that going with your
second choice is hard and you’re
thinking through. In the second line it
saids “And sorry I could not travel
both.” I thought it meant choosing one
road of the two and go along with
continue on with your life. In the
second last line “I took the one less
traveled by.” It means that I chose the
road that not a lot of people would go
for.
-‐Hope
Yamg