ou would not be able to clearly see what was ahead of you, because trees and branches would obstruct it. Just as I never know what lies ahead of me in my journey. Many things have happened that I never would have expected. Life is like those woods because no one can clearly see or predict what will happen in the future, only hope to choose a path that will lead you to good fortune and happiness. I find it possible to read this poem as a statement of some self-pity on the poet’s part, a feeling, perhaps, that he has been beguiled and misunderstood because he, like me, favored an isolated path. To support this articulation, one can point to the last stanza, “I shall be telling this with a sigh; Somewhere ages and ages hence”. I will be giving up the best years of my life in order to achieve my goal. The path that Robert Frost and I have chosen leads far away from the normal social exploits of life. At the end of the second stanza, Frost states that there was really not much difference in the difficulty between two roads; “And both that morning equally lay; I leaves no step had trodden black.” With this, it becomes obvious that the writer’s tone begins to change. It becomes a little more self-assured, less disconcerted and fearful than earlier. The best glimpse of this change in tone is in the second stanza, where Frost says, “because is [the second road] was grassy and wanted wear.” It also shows that Frost, like myself, does not want to be like everybody else, a follower, but instead, he wishes to choose a different road and be himself, a leader. I delight in the fact that I am different and that my path does not conform to the rest of the world. My resolve to change my life was not one of a quick, snap decision. The time that I took deliberating my decision is shown in the poem when Frost states that, “Oh, I kept the first for another day”. The tone gives a feeling as if to sa...
