Response to “The Road Not Taken”
In his poem, Robert Frost talks about choosing a “road less traveled by.” What problems might arise from making this choice in life? Are there benefits to making this choice?
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October 13, 2007 3: 31 pm
the promblems that might arise from taking the road less traveled on is that if it is a colleg and you have a choice to not to go. you might end up not making enough money that you won’t be in want. if someone doesn’t go to college they might have a benifit from more experience on the work front.
October 13, 2007 10: 03 pm
I think the problems that you could have to face are numerous. Different choices apply to different decisions. For example, college, like SuePpd1 said. If you go to college to be a doctor, you might be seperated from your friends, and just be left with more school work. But on the plus side, you’ll probably make more money than them in the long run and have a better life. Different consequences & benefits are based on the question.
October 14, 2007 6: 41 pm
Okay. I kinda think that SueP pd 3 kinda went off topic. Although, I understand what she is saying college isn’t anywhere in the poem not directly anyway. There is only a chance that that was what it was talking about. My opinion about taking the road less traveled is that the person traveling it will have to face obstacles that haven’t really been faced or cleared away yet and that when the person reaches that obstacle they wont be able to get much advice from other people. Some benefits of taking the less traveled road are that along the way you may get to know yourself more and also experience something not many other people have.
October 14, 2007 6: 44 pm
Their could be many problems that might arise from taking the road that not many people took. One is that he might have lost some friend’s. But their are also alot of good things that can come out of it. Like he could make new friends and he is uniqe.
October 14, 2007 6: 56 pm
A problem from choosing the road that was less traveled by would be making the wrong decision, and want to go back but he may not be able to. A benefit to going on the road less traveled would be that he’s taking on new decisions and new adventures. He’s choosing to go by himself, and not follow everyone else.
October 14, 2007 10: 14 pm
A PROBLEM WHEN CHOOSING THE ROAD NOT TAKEN IS YOU MIGHT REGRET IT. SOMETING BAD MIGHT BE AT THE END OF THE ROAD OR SOMETHING YOU DONT WANT. SOME GOOD THAT CAN COME OUT OF IT IS SOMETING REWARDING AT THE END OF THE ROAD. ANOTHER PROBLEM YOU MIGHT HAVE WITH THE ROAD NOT TAKEN IS YOU MIGHT WONDER WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU TOOK THE OTHER ROAD.
October 17, 2007 5: 38 pm
i think that the problems that could arise are actually a lot. there could be the problems that everyone goes through because a lot of people took that road. there might be worse consequences than if you were to take the road that hardly anyone else took. there is a reason why one road is taken more than the others because people dont really think about consequences they just want to follow other people. follow the crowd and the raod that no one else took is mostly the best choice because its not taken. it is the different road. if i was robert frost, i would have taken the road that was not taken just because i would want to be different and not be like everyone else.
October 18, 2007 5: 29 pm
Honestly, this poem related to a flock of birds.
One morning I was waiting for the bus, and I saw a flock of birds flying away, but only one went another way. This poem just came to my mind.
January 9, 2008 12: 46 am
A beautifully simple poem that states how the choices we must make in life change us irreversibly. So often there are the usual ways to do things in the way most people go on that common road. He speaks about the slightly lonely less often path that is demanded by those of us who understand and have the courage to follow our own simpler essence. Even though it makes all the difference we can but travel here once and have but one path we can travel. It is a very lonely way to go where few have passed and few can even understand. We make our own uniqueness and abnormality by choosing the path by just having the curse of knowing the difference. We can not even if we would wish go back and fit in with the crowd of the usual and normal.
April 10, 2008 3: 36 am
Meaning:
The literal meaning of this poem by Robert Frost is pretty obvious. A traveler comes to a fork in the road and needs to decide which way to go to continue his journey. After much mental debate, the traveler picks the road “less traveled by.”
The figurative meaning is not too hidden either. The poem describes the tough choices people stand for when traveling the road of life. The words “sorry” and “sigh” make the tone of poem somewhat gloomy. The traveler regrets leaves the possibilities of the road not chosen behind. He realizes he probably won’t pass this way again.
devices:
There are plenty literary devices in this poem to be discovered. One of these is antithesis. When the traveler comes to the fork in the road, he wishes he could travel both. Within the current theories of our physical world, this is a non possibility (unless he has a split personality). The traveler realizes this and immediately rejects the idea.
Yet another little contradiction are two remarks in the second stanza about the road less traveled. First it’s described as grassy and wanting wear, after which he turns to say the roads are actually worn about the same (perhaps the road less traveled makes travelers turn back?).
personification:
All sensible people know that roads don’t think, and therefore don’t want. They can’t. But the description of the road wanting wear is an example of personification in this poem. A road actually wanting some as a person would. However: some believe this to be incorrect and believe “wanting wear” is not a personification, but rather older English meaning “lacking”. So it would be “Because it was grassy and lacked wear;”.
April 10, 2008 3: 48 pm
Federico II - Thank you for providing such an insightful analysis of the meaning and devices evident in Frost’s wonderful poem.