The Road Not Take

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", the central theme is about choices. More than that, it is about choices that are not made and questioning ourselves later in life. The title of this poem gives us insight to and reflects this theme. We learn in the first lines of the poem that the narrator must choose between two roads he finds equally appealing: "Two roads diverged …

…will and providence; we are free to choose, but we do not really know beforehand what we are choosing between. Our lives are determined by an accrual of choices and chances, and it is impossible to separate the two. In my opinion, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is simply a poem about a person who makes a decision that in affect changed the direction of their life from what it may have otherwise been.