Robert Frost’s the road not taken is a lot like all of our lives in the way that we came to Marion Military Institute. He talks about his decision to choose the right path to take which I view as our choice on where we want to attend college to ultimately reach our end goal, whatever that may be. It says in the first stanza “And sorry I could not travel both”. Assuming that both roads lead to the same end destination, Frost decides to choose the road that is less traveled. This is a perfect way to describe most people’s reasoning to come to MMI, it is simply the choice that most college students would never chose and it is that experience that makes it worthwhile. Frost will not know what he could have experienced if he had taken the other route, just as we would not know what would have happened to us if we were to go about the first two years of our college lives at a regular party school. The end goal/destination would end up being the same, be it a degree or literally a destination of travel. The last line of the poem “And that has made all the difference”. That is where Frost lets me know that he does not regret his choice of taking the road less traveled as he has enjoyed the experience along the way.
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Leineweber really made this blog post and took this poem personally, I think the only way to truly understand a poem is if one is able to apply it to their lives and look at it from a personal perspective. This is exactly what Leineweber has done and as he said it is also what many, if not all of us here at MMI can do as well. We all took the road less traveled when it came to our college choice and as I mentioned in my blog we are at that fork in the road once again as we all make decisions on where to go after MMI. Will we take the road less traveled again or will we follow in the footsteps of the rest?
ReplyDeleteLeinweber makes a great point comparing the poem to our decision in coming to Marion Military Institute. His personal feelings help me understand the poem a little deeper.He quotes a stanza fromt he poem and it makes complete sense with his decription.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Mr. Lineweber and how it relates to us. All of made a decision to come here even though we had a lot of other choices. A lot of SAP cadets could have gone to a lot of other places but they decided to come there and get to the academy that they want. Also a lot of the ECP cadets could have gone to normal college and enjoyed life, but they came here and test themselves and make it to the military in two years. This is how roads really can effects us because roads equal choices.
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