Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Out-compare/Contrast

The Uncertainty of Life

Robert Frost was an American poet who often explored the impact that nature and the environment had on the individual. Frost found that nature allowed the individual to take an introspective look into how present choices may impact future outcomes while keeping in mind that some things are out of an individual's control. In the poems "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "Out," Frost explores the limitations that an individual has over how their life turns out.

In "The Road Not Taken," an unnamed narrator is traveling to an unnamed destination on a road that eventually forks, presumably representative of the narrator's life path. When the narrator comes upon "two roads diverged in a yellow wood," he faces a difficult decision as he can only choose one road to...
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