"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" (Frost, 610)
I think that this poem even though it was written a while ago is still a very important poem. This poem itself talks about how life has two different paths and you chose the path you go down by the choices you make. This particular stanza reflects that the author is at the point in the path where it splits off into two different directions and he is sad he cant travel both to see what they each hold and that he stood there and really thought about which one he wanted to go down. I think this is important because everyone does this in there life they stand at a cross road in life and try and see what the outcome will be before they actually take the outcome and I think this poem is a good reflection on how taking a certain path can change your life then the other and how once you start down that path you cant just go back and change to the other one because you dont like the outcome.
You can't go back in time, I agree. But we can always have some impact on the present - perhaps there is always a fork in the road ahead of us.
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