Analysis of Robert Frost's "The Road not Taken" (No Choice is Easy)

No Choice is Easy
No choice is easy, and people face many of them in their lifetime. Some decisions to these choices are clear while others are sometimes more difficult to decipher between. The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in the speaker’s life. The speaker is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime manifested in his poem. Walking down a rural road the narrator encounters a point on his travel that diverges into two separate similar paths. In the poem the speaker presents the idea of man facing the difficult unchangeable fondness of a moment and a lifetime. This idea is personified in the fork in the road, the decision between the two paths, and the speaker’s decision to select the road not taken. Man’s life can be metaphorically related to a physical journey filled with many twists and turns. Through out this journey there are instances where choices between alternate paths have to be...