robert frost

In Robert Frosts' poem "The Road Not Taken," Frost talks of choosing between two roads to travel. Frost has come to a split in the road and has to choose which road to pick. In Randy Travis' song "I Told You So," a man learns that his girlfriend is choosing between himself and another man. Frosts' poem and Travis' song are very much the same ideas in different words. In Frosts' poem, he writes of …

…decision is left for the reader to decide, for Travis' song it was the wrong decision. These two literary works are scaringly alike. They both talk of the same things happening at the same times. The ending of Frosts' poem is left for the reader while the listeners of Travis' song find out the outcome of the girls' decision. This song and poem makes readers and listeners wonder if Robert Frosts' writing inspired Randy Travis?