Appreciate the road not chosen.

The Road Not Taken is a philosophical lyric poem, which is simple on the surface, but contains profound philosophy. It seems to pour out personal experiences, but in fact it expresses people's feelings. In this poem, Frost captures the concrete image of the fork in the forest, evokes people's rich and vivid associations by metaphor, and sets off the philosophical symbol of the fork in the road in life. The poet chose a common fork in the forest to illustrate his philosophy of life on how to choose the road of life.

The first three paragraphs of this poem seem to only describe the difference between two roads in the forest, but they contain great metaphorical significance. In the fourth quarter, the poet changed his pen and jumped from the road in the forest to the road of describing life. "And I chose the one with fewer footprints, and then it decided that my life would be different from now on." This sentence contains the poet's infinite feelings about life, which is deeply symbolic and philosophical.

The poet reproduces the beautiful natural scenery with a subtle and fresh artistic style, and reflects the emotional waves in people's hearts through the description of natural scenery. The poem also pays attention to arousing people's association, and integrates reason and emotion into a short poem, which deepens the meaning of this poem and gives people rich enlightenment. Poets convey philosophy to readers through beautiful artistic conception creation and rich lyric expression.

In this poem, the poet expresses his thoughts on life with simple and natural language and rhythm. This unpretentious style makes this poem like a cool and soft wind on a summer night, full of fresh and natural interest, giving people a refreshing feeling.

This poem describes a person's mentality when facing a choice, but does not write the specific content of the choice. The poet is concerned with the choice itself. Every reader can find his own life experience and appreciate the philosophical content in this poem.

Because this poem has the openness of connotation, it is like a huge framework, and its content needs readers to fill in, in which they can review their life trajectory, thus being touched and causing deep thought.

Creation background

The Road Not Taken was inspired by Robert Frost's well-meaning jokes about what his best friend Edward Thomas often did in England. Frost often walks in the country with Thomas: Thomas has been trying to choose a road that allows him to show some strange plants or scenery to his American friends.

However, after every walk, Thomas regrets his choice and laments what he could have shown Frost if they had chosen a "better" direction. Many times, when this happens, New Englanders will laugh at his Welsh-English friends' useless regrets.