Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads they will follow in their journey through life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with a sole direction in which to take. Regardless of the message that Robert Frost was originally trying to convey, “The Road Not Taken”, has left it’s readers with many different interpretations. It is ones past, present, and the attitude with which he looks into the future that determines the …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…that it was his decision to make. The harder path made him who he is. There are many equally valid meanings to this poem. Robert Frost may have been trying to achieve a universal understanding. There is no judgement, no specificity, and no moral. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his journey that changes the direction of his life. It allows all readers from different experiences to relate to his poem.