The Road Not Taken

 Choice is a difficult thing. When confronted with choice, most people cannot fathom what to do. Major choices are sometimes hard to put into the process of discernment. But sometimes even the most minute and seemingly petty choices can affect your entire life. Once the preceding sentence registers into the mind of a human, it is inevitable that he will disregard all choice. People will take time, cautiously run over the minutiae of a perplexity, …

…poem, The Road Not Taken, is about the inability to choose due to a fear of choosing wrong and failing. It displays the third choice. When there are two options, the third choice is no choice. To sit in your own little nook in the universe and not change, just be. Frost explores the ideas of non-conformity, change, choice, and infinite sameness throughout the poem The Road Not Taken through the eyes of a narrator.