Decision-making is a weapon used daily to overcome any altercations encountered in life and build up on them in order to create a future. They can be made either by using intuition or reasoning, but regardless the effort that is put into it, the outcome is always unexpected, thus emphasizing the importance in each choice made. The traditional poetry of Robert Frost is characterized by his use of metaphors to depict the theme of decision-making in his life. Frost is a cherished American poet who spent most of his life in Massachusetts and New England, which is where he obtained most of his inspiration for his poetry. Most of his poems are based on his description of nature in order to emphasize the struggles that he went through during his lifetime, such as problems within his family and friends, and the decisions he had to make in order to overcome them. More specifically, poems such as “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The Armful” deal with the priorities in one’s life and the decisions that one makes in order to choose a life-altering path.
Throughout the poem “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost gives birth to a controversial issue that deals with the pressure of deciding which road to take, thus creating a parallel to his life and the future that lies on the roads in front of him. Evidently, this poem is among the most illustrious because of its simple form and content, which the majority of the readers can identify with