The Road Not Taken

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem that exemplifies life’s choices. The poem details a traveler as he travels down a road. The road is a metaphor for life, where the traveler is faced with a choice both figuratively and literally, when he comes upon a fork in the road. Each road in the fork symbolizes his life’s potential outcomes if he chooses to venture down that path.
In this poem, Frost the narrator uses the first person point of view. The rhyme scheme appears to be ABAB. Frost uses informal diction, and the first line begins with a vague reference to the opening of Dante’s Inferno, while the entire first stanza establishes the prelude to his decision making process by checking out the roads, one grassy and one worn.
Frost is faced with a choice. Should he proceed down the road that is “grassy and wanted wear”, referring to the claim that no one had walked down the path in some time or walk the path that seemed well trodden. He con...