This poem is basically about a man who has to decide which road to take in the woods. I interpreted this poem, metaphorically, as choices we have to make everyday in our life. The speaker of this poem takes"the road less traveled by" because he wanted to make a choice that was different from what others might have taken. This choice shows the speaker's individualism. Soon after he traveled the road, he realizes that it was not that different from the other. Robert Frost claimed he did not write this poem to be about him, but about a friend of his who took a different path in life which he might've regreted. The main theme of the poem was to show how even the smallest choices we make in life have a big impact on who we are as a person.
I chose this poem because it related to how many different choices I have made in my life that were important. Where I live and study today was a big decision I had to make many times that impacted me. Similiar to the poem, my decision was "a road less traveled by. We always have to think about what might've been if I had just took the road commonly traveled by. I think that is why the poem' s title is "The Road Not Taken", and not "The Road Taken".
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