Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco)

I appreciate this poem very much.The road not taken is really about the deep sorrow of the life.That you have many choices in this world, but you can only choose one.This kind of sorrow has its roots in the time.What I mean is that, the time is like a strecthing line, which can never go back when it passed.So we can only take one possibility of life, which will makes us sad.In the ancient Chinese poems, there are lots of poems concrening the theme of time, but they are very different from this poem.In the Chinese poem, the time is flowing like the river, day and night.So the people will think of the past time and feel a sad mood.What makes them sad is not the choices exsiting in the same time, but the choices between the past and the now.

This has always been one of my favorite poems.

im not sure this is a poem, i can 'like', but its a poem i can appreciate.
as an earlier poster said, its full of remose of what could have been..he's saying he 'shall be telling this with a sigh...'.
i don't 'like' poems that try to put forward messages, images are everything and if they provoke a few feelings..great.!

The way we choose makes all the difference.True, quite often we think what could be what if we chose the other way! But alas! There remains no way to return to the wood where the roads diverged.

It's probably all been said
He is is just about everybody's top ten
Certainly in mine
But what do I know.
I have Marriot Edgar in my top ten too.!

the poem is very inspiring... through our journey we need to choose the path we want to go through. most of the time we choose the easiest path because we are afraid of taking risks.. but life is about taking risks... that's why we have to choose the trail where we will be most fulfilled even though it may be hard for us...

The Road Not Taken................this poem has inspired me from the moment i was introduced to it by my teacher in school. The poet has illustrated the saying 'Winners dont do different things, they do things differently' with this poem. The less trodden path will always hav many uncleared bushes n obstacles but at the end it will have its own share of beauty that few people hav ever seen.

Fantastic!
I love it because it's like life... you may choose to take the path that not many have taken before, and you mayn't be able to take the other.

A bzillion thumbs up! =)

This has always been one of my favorite poems of Robert Frost's, I think for obvious reasons. The flow was perfect, the imagery was nice, the emotion was good but the main thing was the message, this message really had an impact on my life. How many of us have stood at the fork, looking down the easy path one way, the hard (lesser trod) path the other way, and decided to go down the easy road... the one less traveled by? I choose the roads less traveled by, myself, and that truly has made all the difference.

P.S. Robert Frost was my single most influential poet while growing up and was the main reason I took to writing poetry. Though my favorite poet is Edger Allen Poe... Robert Frost had the most influence over me.

well I think that robert frost is a really cool poet and his poetry is fantastic