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 …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 726 total…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.