The poem raises the metaphor of life as a journey in which alternatives force to choose which path to follow. When coming to alternatives, a crucial point of the journey, it must make a decision. Knows that the future will depend on that choice. Can choose the most traveled road, the one that most people would choose (by habit or comfort) and therefore it will be easier since the path is marked, or venture down the road less traveled and build an own path, make the way before the difficulties, face obstacles and unforeseen events.
Moments of doubt and tension makes confuse what path to take, and as a consequence, we choose one or the other because we have to make a decision, guided by instinct maybe. This makes the decisions in life change the destination. Once the decision is made, it is illogical to say that maybe another day may return to explore the way left behind, but that is not possible! The author’s Frost says “Oh, I kept the first for another day!” (Line 13). Sometimes wrong choices bring the right places in a certain sense, it could also be said that every decision that one makes opens a path and closes others. Many times when choosing a path do not have to backtrack: there is any way to go back! The freedom of decision is that a linear succession of choices in life, which once taken always include the options set aside, projected the inevitable character of an undefined potential and never been.
The two roads in this poem at the beginning looks the same, talks about people having two options and only need to choose one. They always wonder what would have happened if they had taken the other. The author’s Frost says “Then took the other, as just as far” (Line 6). The poem prompts to make a decision and take it out with all that this implies. Not asking all the time that had happened to take the other way. By choosing the path that seemed less pleasant (but seemed so busy, because it was just as busy) but not repenting because when the decision was made consciously, you understand what this implies because in the end, one path is more challenging than the other. Frost reveals the existential maxim about the great decisions must make in life when there are no certainties and the experiences do not serve as precautionary lightning in the face of the future. However, that is the key: the life that is given has to have decisions, but each one must do it according to his vital decision.
Accepting or rejecting God, In the Christian life there are two ways: the wide and the narrow. The width, at first sight, seems to be the most advantageous, but in the end, it brings dire consequences. On the other hand, the narrow road is a difficult road to travel, but with the help of Good God, can be reach the goal with good results. “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10).
Which way to take? That is the question often asked when have to make a decision when are faced with the alternative of choice. That question reveals that the choice is not simple. On the one hand want to choose the easiest and most comfortable way, the one that everyone follows; but on the other hand, are presented with another, little traveled, but that offers an alternative of personal growth. Know that the election will take from there in more of an election that has no return, that path not chosen can hardly take it after the decision has ahead. Always have the possibility to choose, and where two paths open, the option that is presented to is the easiest and most comfortable way, or that other, different one, that drives to grow. The decision depends on the attitudes, projects, aspiration, and courage to take the risk of going the way. In this poetry by Robert Frost that moment of decision is raised, aware that the direction of a life depends on the chosen path.
