Assignment #8-Poems

My reader-response is to Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken. I believe my analysis form of criticism best suits this particular poem because of it authenticity. I believe this poem is a metaphor as to what Robert Frost saw life as. His life may have been like two roads which diverged at some point. This may have been early in his adolescence. He could not travel both. This can been seen as an obstacle he might have encountered physically. He might have seen himself not doing things because of a lack of want or ambition. If this is not the case, then maybe Robert wanted to go to a certain school in choice but did not. As the poem shares, he took the road less taken.
He thought both of these roads looked about the same, which could be what he wants to believe at this point. He had pondered hard to which way would be the right, but took the one less taken. He makes the interesting statement of telling us that one way leads to another. This meant that there was his next step before him. He was a tired traveler nonetheless. Lines 16,17 say "I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence;" This was the author Robert's closing statements at the end of his life, or career. The road he took, or what he made of the road he took made "all the difference".