Thursday, November 6, 2008

The Road Not Taken

The meaning behind The Road not Taken, by Robert Frost, was that there are choices, and decisions to make. Decisions that you won't ever get to make again. They could be the one that many other people have taken, or one completely different. Whether that different road is good or bad, you don't know until you are there. And you don't get to start over. Once you're on that road, that's the road your on.

It's kind of like choosing which college to go to. Or picking what sports you are going to do in highschool. You can't go back to your freshman year and decide to do volleyball when you have already done soccer. You can't be graduating from WSU and try to switch to Harvard. It just doesn't work. Once you have picked your path to be on, it's almost impossible to get off of it. And hopefully, you don't have regrets. Or reasons to want to go back in time and fix everything. Hopefully you have gone on the path that lesser people have been on, the pristine nice one. Hopefully.

1 comment:

Katey's English Blog said...

I agree Whitney. Once you're there, there is no turning back.. so if you have regrets, well, then it sucks to be you! haha.

I really like this poem, and the meaning that you gave it.. this poem really "speaks to me" :) haha