Personal Choices in Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken Essay -- Road No

Personal Choices and The Road Not Taken                    When I learn The Road Not Taken, I thought right away of the choice I made in high school not to study contrary languages. In the poem, the speaker makes his choice in either shine or spring - when the woods are yellow. I see both these seasons as propagation of new beginnings. In spring, everything new is growing. In fall (at least for students) its the start of a new school year. I made my choice one fall when a guidance director told me I was not college material and recommended that I drop my French class. September should ask been a beginning, but I power saw it as an end to my dream for college. Its only now that I can begin to think it was-in a way - a beginning, too. Dropping French was loveable because I didnt do well in languages, but taking a language was also desirable because you had to... ...ence to her own choices in life. Her obse rvations show that she became genuinely evoke in Frosts theme and was able to appreciate his poem more fully by bringing something of herself to her reading. You may think her commentary is very different from what you have previously thought of as literary analysis. Certainly, her ideas are expresses informally and personally, yet she has indeed analyzed the poem (looked at how parts of it work to create the whole).