Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

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This paper examines the theme of making choices in Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken" and looks at how this theme applied to the choices and decisions Frost had to make in his own life.

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"Would the world have been fundamentally different if Frost had decided that "The Road Not Taken" should be published in regular type instead of italics? Probably not. Would the world have been fundamentally different if Frost had opened "Mountain Interval" with another one of his poems? But what if Frost had decided that he did not want to finish this poem, although he had written the first stanza? What is Frost had not gone to England where he met the walking companion who agonized over ever fork in the path? What if he did decided that writing poetry and teaching about writing was simply not lucrative enough for him to support himself, his wife, and their children?

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