---I have listen to Robert Frost and it is different from all the other ones that I had read so far. Some of them I do understand but some of them I don't understand. I find this one The Road Not Taken.It seems like he had came to two cross roads and he had to choose to see where it was going to lead him to.I am sure that where he is today is where he likes it.---Sharon

---I understand what the poet is saying that we walk a road in life making choices and living with them however, there is another road we sometimes wish we had or hadn't taken we have to live withe the guilt or satisfaction of our choices. We each must walk our own paths sometimes searching for the fork in the road to find the end but, the end never comes. We have to decided what we want for example if it's the road to learn how to read and write better we must tell ourselves it;is a rocky road with lots of twist and turns or the other road to live without that skill knowing that we now are at a stand still. No matter what road we choose we have to live with the choice and be happy with it in our hearts. We some times take many roads to get from point A to point C we know that there is at least one obstacle in our paths but if it's a wall it can but broken by u and only u.---Cheryl

I think that Cheryl and Sharon wrote about this poem very well.

I think that Sharon is right that he had a decision to make and that he is happy with his decision. I think that when he says that he chose the road less travelled he means he did not choose to follow what everybody else does, but he chose his own path, one that not many people choose.

Why do you think that would make him happy?

I like the way Cheryl related it to her own life and experience. I think we can all relate to the way she talks about the journey of learning. And to the part where you say "we have to live with the guilt or satisfaction of our choices." Or can we learn to get satisfaction from all of our choices because they are all learning experiences and give us tools for the next steps?

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Then 3 more people wrote about the poem.

---The poem is about two roads that go separate ways. The person chooses the right roads "And that has made all the difference." This poem is about life you can live it anyway you want.Sometime we have to make a choice---Lisa

---The rhyming works help you think about the flow of the poem and understand it a little more.

wood stood could

both undergrowth

fair wear there

black back

I by sigh

hence difference

With this poem you can look at it in many ways. As a road in the wood the person in the poem is trying to find their way out faster.The two ways I will write about are: I would say it is fall by the colour of the woods.This person cannot split himself in two to go both roads, "Sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler." So he goes the one that is "Perhaps the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear. Nobody has gone down these roads yet this day, "In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh I kept the first for another day Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubled if I should ever come back." So maybe to road he took was clearer and cleaner for him to take.

Another way to look at this poem is like looking at life. One road divides into two. It is a symbol of the pathway to life. They are both different one is a bad road and wrong, the other is a good road. The symbol in this poem that tells me this, "Looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim." Its for you to choose the best road to follow.---Monique

---This poem is about a traveler who went walking and came upon some woods. The roads to the woods came to a fork. He decided to take the right fork. He took what seems to be the better one. The road was a good walk with walking over the leaves. It was like finding some sort of solitude. The woods, the time of day, and the smells were magnificent. A would love to have a chance to came back and, tack a walk on the left fork. But the path that a am travelling will take me out of my way. I do not think I will have the time to come back to it.

This poem could also be about life because it’s about making a decision: which way to go. “Two roads diverged” is like a fork in the road

Symbols: two roads – decision; undergrowth – warning, don’t do it; woods – diversions you have to go around. “And that has made all the difference” means that the road that I took made all the difference in my life.

---Al