The narrator is looking back on the decisions that have affected him earlier in his life, in this first-person narrative. Since everyone has had to make a decision at some point in their life it is easy to look past the narrator and see oneself to some degree. Since the language used is very simple it seems as though the narrator is not speaking but thinking, for the language of thoughts tends to be simple without using complex wording. This simple, almost quiet and seducing tone acts to draw the reader into the poem allowing the rea

In perhaps his best known poem, Frost recognizes something that everyone should realize. The simple picture of a man deciding which path to follow is suddenly changed into a description of life by Frost’s poetic hand. Frost pulls the reader into the poem, but maintains the thought-like atmosphere as the narrator looks back into his life at the decisions that he made and their results. No matter how small a decision appears to be at the time that it is made, each and every choice will make “all the difference” (20).

On the other hand, Frost could be using the images presented in the poem in a very involved and general way. The paths and the fork may no longer refer to their definitions, but instead as keywords in a description of life. Throughout the poem, Frost is defining life as a series of decisions. Some of these may, at the time, be thought of as insignificant, while others could be thought of as very significant. Frost argues that while a decisions’ significance at

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