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The Importance of Each Decision in The channel non TakenTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I -- / I took the sensation less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. Robert Frosts The channel Not Taken is a lyrical metrical composition about the decisions that one must make in spirit. When a human approaches a complication in the road on which he is traveling, he must aim which path to take. The option that he makes, as with any choices made in life, prints him in a way that has made all the difference . Thematically, the poem argues that no matter how small a decision is, that decision volition affect a persons life forever. The Road Not Taken is told as a first-person narrative. The fibber is looking back on the decisions that have change him. The decision that is illustrated in the poem occurred at a much earliest point in the narrators life. It would be possible for a reader to be drawn into the poem to such a degree that the reader would receive the nar rator. E realone has made decisions, and since it is the purpose of this poem to discuss and address those decisions, it would be comfy to look beyond the narrator and see oneself. The word choice utilize in the poem very effectively portrays the speaker. The language used is very simple, about as if the narrator is not speaking, but thinking, for the language of thoughts tends to be simple without using words that require a dictionary to define. The simple, almost quiet and seducing tone acts to draw the reader into the poem allowing the reader to fit the narrator. Throughout the poem, Frost uses images that could be interpreted as either kind of simple and very specific or incredibly involved and passing general. For example, by interpreting images such as Two roads... in a yello... ...ming lines do not necessarily contain the same number of syllables. This choice by Frost pulls the reader into the poem, but maintains the thought-like atmosphere as the narrator looks back u nto his life at the decisions that he made and their results. In his peradventure best known poem, Frost recognizes something that all(prenominal)one should realize. The simple picture of a man deciding which path to follow is suddenly changed into a description of life by the mastery of Frosts poetic hand. No matter how small a decision appears to be at the time that it is made, that decision will affect a persons life forever, or as Frost puts it, each and every choice will make all the difference.Work Cited Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken. The North Introduction To Literature. 6th ed. Eds. Carl E.Bain, Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter. New York W.W Norton, 1995. 1097.