Analysis of "The Road Not Taken"

Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken" is a poem that depicts the narrator standing in the woods. He is faced with a fork in the roads, and has to choose to travel one of them. Both of the paths are equally worn. The narrator contemplates a long time and chooses "the more traveled one", making a note to himself that he would take the other path later. Yet, he knows that the probability of …

…people's minds. And it is hard to change these ingrained thoughts. Although "The Road Not Taken" is not particularly difficult to understand, it has a life-long teaching. Robert Frost puts his decision-making experiences into a poem and warns us to be alert when making decisions, for if we make the wrong ones, they would plague us for a lifetime. I think that we should learn from other people's mistakes and take heed in Frost's advice.