Fork Of A Road
Fork in a Road
"When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra.
Everyday we are met with circumstances and with the circumstances come the decisions we make in order to fulfill our lives and make them meaningful. However, once we make a decision, after we pass that "fork in the road", we need to move on, accepting what we have done, because what has happened has happened and there is nothing we can do to change the past. Such is a case in Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, and Alistair MacLeod’s short story “The Lost Salt Gift of Blood”. While the persona in Frost’s poem has knowingly come to a dilemma, in contrast, the narrator in MacLeod’s story makes a decision without glancing to the future. Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life.
Robert Frost puts his persona in front of a road diverging, and he must make a decision on which to take.......
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