Person Response to Road Not Taken
Type: Poem The Road Not Taken Author: Robert Frost
I enjoyed reading the poem The Road Not Taken because it made me think about what messages the author was trying to convey and also because it was easy to relate to.
A traveler comes to a fork in the woods and he has to pick which road he should take. I found this easy to relate to because everybody needs to make decisions in their lives, whether it’s moving country, walking home or which road in the woods to take. The traveler analyses both paths to decide which one has the “better claim”. He chooses the second as it was “grassy and wanted wear” but then goes on to say they were “really about the same”. This was interesting how he did not say they were ‘exactly’ the same even though he later describes “both that morning equally lay/In leaves no steps had trodden black”. I was impressed when I realized what he meant. I realized that no matter how similar two paths are in life, even if they lead to the same outcome, they will never be exactly the same because if I chose to walk instead of drive home, the destination is the same but I will be seeing and experiencing things at a different angle and also at a different pace.
I found the setting of the lone traveler in the woods fascinating because it is successful in conveying the meaning of the poem. Paths in the woods and forks in roads are ancient and deep-seated metaphors for the lifeline, its crises and decisions. As the traveler comes to the identical forks, I realized that it symbolizes the link between free will and fate and that we are free to choose, but we do not really know beforehand what we are choosing between. I think this because the traveler could not see further down than “where it bent in the undergrowth,” and this shows how we cannot see into the future. I was surprised when I saw how this relates to Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. Kate expects she will hate being tamed and married to Petruchio which she expresses
I enjoyed reading the poem The Road Not Taken because it made me think about what messages the author was trying to convey and also because it was easy to relate to.
A traveler comes to a fork in the woods and he has to pick which road he should take. I found this easy to relate to because everybody needs to make decisions in their lives, whether it’s moving country, walking home or which road in the woods to take. The traveler analyses both paths to decide which one has the “better claim”. He chooses the second as it was “grassy and wanted wear” but then goes on to say they were “really about the same”. This was interesting how he did not say they were ‘exactly’ the same even though he later describes “both that morning equally lay/In leaves no steps had trodden black”. I was impressed when I realized what he meant. I realized that no matter how similar two paths are in life, even if they lead to the same outcome, they will never be exactly the same because if I chose to walk instead of drive home, the destination is the same but I will be seeing and experiencing things at a different angle and also at a different pace.
I found the setting of the lone traveler in the woods fascinating because it is successful in conveying the meaning of the poem. Paths in the woods and forks in roads are ancient and deep-seated metaphors for the lifeline, its crises and decisions. As the traveler comes to the identical forks, I realized that it symbolizes the link between free will and fate and that we are free to choose, but we do not really know beforehand what we are choosing between. I think this because the traveler could not see further down than “where it bent in the undergrowth,” and this shows how we cannot see into the future. I was surprised when I saw how this relates to Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. Kate expects she will hate being tamed and married to Petruchio which she expresses