A poem which left a deep impression on me

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And 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,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

After reading the poem above by Robert Frost, let me proceed by explaining why and how it left a deep impression on me and what I learnt from it.

The main idea of this poem is that the speaker is in a dilemma in front of two different roads which could lead to two different places or even to somewhere unknown to the speaker. As the speaker tried to look down the road as much as he could, he saw nothing as it was going down slope. Upon looking at the other one, which was grassy and 'wanted wear', he chose the grassy one at last as the leaves on the ground told him that nobody returned after venturing into any of these two roads. He decided to leave the first for another day if he returned. However, he is doubting his ability of returning so that he could try taking the first road. In the end, the speaker chose to take the one less travelled by others and believes that it made all the difference. I admire Robert Frost's description of the speaker at that point of time, the activity going on in his heart as he ponders over which road to choose and after choosing, still a little worried of what will result from this decision and whether will he make it back successfully. This is the reason why this particular poem left a deep impression on me.

Both Robert Frost and the speaker in the poem have many places for me to learn from. Let us talk about Robert Frost first, I really like the way Robert Frost describes the scene right in front of the speaker in the poem. I can literally picture the diverged roads in the middle of a forest. I can learn from his way of describing things so that I can also do it in my essays. Next, let us talk about the speaker of the poem. Being in such a situation in the forest, the speaker still has his own way of thinking and chose the road less travelled instead of the one more people travelled. The speaker thus has his own thinking and will not follow the crowd. This is something very good and I myself will also try hard to think in my own view instead of following everybody.

In conclusion, The Road Not Taken has indeed left a deep impression on me and I also learnt much from it.