Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

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 marked 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. 

Robert Frost

I heard this poem in 7th grade. To me it was just like any other poem, but now as a college student and a growing teenager, I look back to this poem. The reason I look back to this poem is because now all the decisions I make today will have consequences for me in the future and might affect me in a good or bad way.  What I believe we can get from this poem is that Frost is trying to tell us to not always follow everyone, sometimes its better if you do you, meaning you take the ROAD LESS TRAVELED because that can make the DIFFERENCE in your LIFE !