The poem I will be reciting is, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. On a base level the poem might seem quite simple and easily understandable. If you analyze the poem and look deep enough you can find out what the poem means to you.
I took the steps to learn each and every word by heart. I know what lies beneath the poetic phrasing of Robert Frost. This poem to me is about decision making processes. Near the start he comes at a cross road. He ventures down one turns back and goes down the other a ways. To me this would be exploring each option to decide which one you want to choose. Then he describes how one is torn up from people going that way and the other has been virtually unused. I think that this means one decision can be the easy answer that gets you out of it, and the other is the one that is more interesting and can teach you lessons on the journey there. Then he talks about how he will leave the other for another day, which means that he might use that decision another time. He then says how he is glad he took the road not taken, which means he is glad all the hard work payed off well.
This poem could mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. To me, this poem is the struggle of one making a decision to work hard or to take the easy way out of things.
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