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The Road Not Taken

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Choice. We ask ourselves: what fates lie behind certain options, and which one will be awoken when an ultimatum is decided? However, never in our modern society will we stop to think about the millard of personal routes that we control; consequently, every decision made will affect the blueprint that illustrates our lives. The implications that society has upon our individual decision making criteria is explained in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". The speaker of the piece assesses the possibilities that lie ahead of two diverging roads; he figuratively must decide whether he should follow the principles of beauty and common-ness told by society, or act by the influence of himself. Frost's use of imagery, metaphor, and positive and negative
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