The two poems written by Robert Frost that will be explained are titled “The Road Not Taken”, written in 1916, and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” in 1922. The purpose of explaining these two poems is to correlate them in order to establish a common theme that they both possess, originating from the individual themes of both poems. The theme I choose to expose concerns choice, or rather the experience of a moment in life in which a choice must be made when faced with a series of possible options. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original EssayWhen presented with a series of options relevant to a major choice in life, you explore all possible outcomes of the options relevant to that single choice. This is one of the reasons why it is important to take the time to think about which option to choose, to avoid making a wrong or unfavorable decision. Once the only option has been decided among the other options and the possible outcomes offered, one achieves a sense of confidence and this instills in one's mind the ideology that they have made the right choice and can now continue unhindered in life with this positive mindset, knowing they made the right choice, and when you reflect on it later in life, the previous instillation of the ideology – that they made the right choice that time – is still present during the reflection. The first stanza of Frost's poem The Road Not Taken portrays a traveler who has encountered a road divergence where only one of his paths can be taken, in the first line "two roads diverged in a yellow wood". Being a traveler, he closely examines one of the paths of divergence, although his exploratory actions as a traveler are explained in the second and third lines of the stanza; "and be a traveler, I stayed long... and looked down as far as I could..." in which he evaluates the safety of the path and the possible outcome before making a decision for which path he decides to continue on.Often in life , when a decision has to be made for a choice, people observe the options provided in each way, to see and decide which would be the best to do, as the traveler is doing in this case for one of the two routes he has the possibility to undertake. In the second stanza of the poem, the traveler examines the secondary route again and makes his own observations about it in the first line; "then took the other, equally right..." in which he concludes that both paths are mostly identical. In the remaining lines of the stanza, examine how this path of divergence appears to be slightly more worn (perhaps from more people traveling on it) than the other, noted in the second and third lines; "and having perhaps the better claim... for it was grassy and wanted wear..." in which he actually comes to the conclusion that the paths are mostly identical in the fourth and fifth lines of the stanza; "although the passage there...had worn them much the same." It can be inferred that at this point the traveler is undecided about which path to take, as no decision has actually been made at this point in the poem. When deciding which choice you want to make with the options provided, examining or observing the characteristics of both options is a key aspect of the decision-making process. In the first two lines of the third stanza, it is now known that the time of day is early, that the area is still as it was before, and none of the leaves covering both paths have turned black from the constant crossing on foot of others human beings; "and both that morning lay equally... in the leaves that no step hadtrampled." It can also be deduced that the traveler spends a lot of time thinking about which path to take, and the same is done in weighing the options for a choice to be made. With three lines remaining, the traveler seems to have made a decision, apparently evident in the line “oh, I saved the first one for another day!” in which he prefers the second path to the first, and intends to take the first path some time later. The traveler also realizes that he no longer wants to be exposed to a situation like this, since he understands the current circumstance attributable to the phrase "yet knowing as one road leads to another, I doubted whether I should ever return." In essence, the traveler realizes the path he has chosen to get to this point (in the poem and in the journey; again, given the current circumstance), and that knowing how things lead to other things [“as the road leads to a way”] introduces a doubtful possibility, which would be return [“I doubted it if I ever returned”]. has finally decided which path he wanted to take in the divergence, and that when they decide to reflect on this decision made, later in life, they will say: “I will say this with a sigh... somewhere for centuries and centuries... so two paths they diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled. And that made all the difference." In the last line of this stanza, the traveler seems to be very satisfied with his decision, and does not hint at any signs of regression of his choice in his words, hence their words "and that he made a difference.” The aforementioned instillation of confidence is present in the words (and mentality) of the traveler because he does not regret the decision he made while reflecting on what choice he decided to make, and he may even conclude that the traveler was able to continue in the life without a doubt. because they believe and know that the choice they made was the correct one. In the first three lines of the first stanza of the second poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the knight is unaware of the woods he thinks he is currently in, despite knowing that 'his' home is in a village that is most likely nearby. , saying “whose woods these are, I think I know... his house, however, is in the village; he will not see me stop here... to watch his woods fill with snow." In the last two lines of this poem, it seems that the knight knows that he must be somewhere else rather than in the forest, and that "he" would not that the knight spent the night in the forest (despite its beauty), when the knight should, or must, be in the city. The knight's horse realizes that they are not in the city, and that it would be rather strange to suddenly stop without it a real reason; in the first two lines of the second stanza "my little horse must think it's strange... to stop without a farm near". The following two lines indicate the setting within the forest and the darkness for the period of the year in which it is found; “between the forest and the frozen lake… the darkest evening of the year.” Perhaps this natural environment and the darkness of the day, with the added atmosphere of the forest, is a reason why the knight wants to stay and admire the beauty of the forest, but he has one of the options, a choice, to stay in in the forest. In the first two lines of the third stanza, the horse realizes the peculiarity of the situation, because "he shakes the bells of the harness... to ask if there is any mistake", since at that moment they are sitting in the middle of the forest. a quiet forest, in the darkest night of the year, with moderate snow conditions and far from the nearby village, to reach. The atmosphere of the quiet of the forest is also denoted in the next two lines of the stanza; the sweeping... of the wind.