Frost

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.

The Road Not Taken

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is the story of one man’s journey through life and the decisions he has to make. He comes up to two roads diverged and had to make a choice that he would once look back at. He would either regret or love the decision for the rest of his life. Not knowing where either road will take him he looks down both and makes a decision. I believe that the message behind this poem is that one day in everyone’s life we are going to have to make a decision not knowing where it may lead us. Choosing that road isn’t meant to be easy, and isn’t meant to be the right decision. Sometimes the hardest things in life are the things that matter most. A good example of having to decide which rode to take is when you are going to college and do not know which one to attend. And another may be when you have multiple job offers and one may be away from home so you don’t know what will be best for you. I believe that sometimes you just have to go with the flow of things because you cannot decide how everything in life is supposed to be it just has to play out and the beginning of that is making a decision, and not having a clue of where it will lead you.