Analysis of "A Road Not Taken"

The Road Not Taken”

I chose to do a poetry explication on Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”. I enjoyed this poem and have read many poems written by him. First, I just want to give a little background information on him. Robert Frost was one of the most inspiring and loved poets of the twentieth century. His work is concentrated on the New England Landscape. Most of the poems written by Frost have involved fear, tragedies, and life itself. Frosts poems have a great deal of symbolism involved, “The careful local observations and homely details of his poems often have symbolic, and even metaphysical, significance” (Robert Frost). In this poem he goes into the theme of life itself, the continuous journey, and the difficult decisions that have to be made along the way. This poem also is about choice. Choosing the path that is right for the person that will be traveling it. It could be the one less traveled or the more frequently traveled. It’s up to t...