“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, when first read on a very simple level appears to be a poem about a man's decision about whether to take one path or the other. The poem obviously has a much deeper meaning. The most obvious metaphor in the poem is one of two roads that represent decisions in one's life. Everyone makes decisions in their lives, so this metaphor connects the reader to the poem in a more personal way. In Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken", Frost successfully creates a poem that the reader can connect to, a poem about difficult decisions in one's life. Throughout time, humans have always been required to make difficult and often life-changing decisions. in their lives. They may often wonder if they made the right decision or if they would have had a better life if they had decided differently. Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken", is a reminder of the speaker's decision as to which of two roads to take, this being a metaphor for a person making decisions in their life. These decisions obviously have to be different, otherwise they would be easy to make. In the poem, however, the streets look “more or less the same,” making the decision even more difficult for the speaker. “There must be two paths and they must, of course, be different if the choice of one over the other is to make a rational difference (“And this made a difference”). But the fundamental fact, that on that particular morning when the choice was made, the two paths seemed "more or less the same", makes it difficult to understand how the choice could be rationally based on (key word of the poem) a "difference" perceivable and objective. ” (Lenticchia). The title, “The Road Not Taken”, suggests that the speaker is not concentrating on the road he has travelled…… middle of the paper……in the word “difference” in a positive or negative way, choosing whether the speaker is happy or sorry about the decision on which path to take. People must make their own decisions, hope they made the right one, and dwell not on what could have been, but on what was. Works Cited Faggen, Robert. "On "The Road Not Taken"." University of Illinois. Np, nd Web. April 20, 2011. Frost, Robert. “The Road Not Taken”. Literature: reading, reacting, writing. Ed. Laurie G. Kirsner and Stephen R. Mandell. 7th ed. Boston: Wadswort, 2010. 1024-1025. Print. Lentricchia, Frank. "On "The Road Not Taken"." University of Illinois. Np, nd Web. April 20, 2011.Parini, Jay. "On "The Road Not Taken"." University of Illinois. Np, nd Web. April 20, 2011. Richardson, Marco. "On "The Road Not Taken"." University of Illinois. Np, nd Web. April 20. 2011.