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• The Road Not Taken


  A well-known poem by Robert Frost about making choices in life
• The poem


  • Describes the confusion of a person standing at a road with a fork
  • The road symbolizes our life and the path that we don't choose is "the road not taken"
  • We should be wise while making a decision as we cannot undo them and our life is determined by our choices
• The poet's experience in the poem

  1. Strolling down the road

  2. Came to a junction

  3. Could only walk on one of the pathways

  4. After much deliberation, chose to follow a different path
• The poet's choice


  • Believed both roads were equally good
  • Picked the one that appeared to be less travelled over
  • Saved the other for another day, even though he knew he would never get the chance to walk over it
• The poet recognized after a short way on the road that both paths were alike
• The poet's decision


  • Felt that his future depended on the decision he took
  • If he went further on the chosen path, he would not be able to turn back
• The poem communicates that the decisions we make have a big influence on our future
• We can't go back in time and change our minds if we make the incorrect decision
• The poem's message

  • Be careful when making life decisions
  • When making decisions, one should be very intelligent and attentive since our decisions determine our destiny
  • One wrong mistake might cause us to regret it for the rest of our lives