When I first read Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," the theme stuck out to me and was easy to understand. In his writing, the speaker showed a personal experience of how one decision made the difference in their life. The speaker wants the reader to know that one will have to make hard decisions in life for anything one wants to achieve that you cannot change, and that it will make differences in how your life plays out. The very first stanza talks about a person who has come to a point where he has to choose his fate. The first two lines of the poem are, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." (Line 1) Right away the reader can tell that the speaker is confronted with a decision. The speaker says, "And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood" (Lines 2 and 3). He is trying to figure out the route that he wants to take, but cannot decide. The speaker stands at the fork of the road and looks down both of them, trying to come up with some reasoning to pick one or the other.
In the second stanza, the speaker begins to notice a difference between the two routes. The poem states, "Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim." (Lines 6 and 7) One path starts to grab his attention so he travels down the one the speaker says is best. As the speaker travels down the one less traveled, he can tell that people have had to make the same choice and they had taken that route. It has just been so long it had been overgrown. The speaker says, "Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same." (Lines 9 and 10) These quotes show that many people have been in that situation and that they also had to choose between the two trails. .
The third stanza shows how the speaker starts to question his own preference that he made. When the morning comes, he can see that the leaves are covering the trail and nobody has been that way in a long time.
