Poetry Reflection 2/16/15

 Poetry Reflection

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

            This poem is about two roads the speaker in the poem came across. One road was one that was more traveled by people. The other was less traveled by people. He decides to take the more traveled road because he would come back and take the other another day. He then started to doubt he he will ever come back again. The speaker shows great regret towards the end of the poem by saying, "I shall be telling this with a sigh ... I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

            I think the author wrote this poem because near the end of the poem it says, "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." I think this shows regret that he did not take the other road, telling the readers to try to make choices you won't regret. Also this this quote means that he was upset because there could have been so many things that could have happened if he took the other road. Telling the readers that when you make a decision it is hard to go back and change that.

            I can relate to this poem myself because every time I read this poem I always think of the chances I could have taken. Whether it was to go for the ball in volleyball or to not going on a roller coster because you were afraid. In life we all regret things. You may think it is not a big deal, but you could have been missing out on so much. Even if you do regret something you can always think of it the other way, for example, if the speaker in the poem were to take the less traveled on road he would still probably regret not taking the more traveled on road. Some things we just have to deal with in life including regret,