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"The Road Not Taken"
"The Road Not Taken" is one of Robert Frost's most famous poems. This poem can be very easily misunderstood, and there are several different interpretations for the poem. Frost described his poem as being very "tricky" to convince his readers that the poem is meant to be taken as a joke on the speaker and as a parody of his attitudes towards the subject of making the right decisions (Magill 1839). This poem is about making a decision when confronted with two possible choices. Life is not simple; a person is never confronted with a decision that only has one narrow path. In "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost uses symbolism through nature to analyze one's decision-making through life; and the narrator hopes that his choices will not haunt him for the rest of his life.
"The Road Not Taken" could either be about Frost himself; or it could be about Frost's good friend, Edward Thomas. "According to the Lawrence Thompson biography, Robert Frost: The Years of......

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