The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

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 kept 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.



 I chose "The Road Not Taken" because it shows how the choices we make affect us. When the narrator comes across the forked path, he must make a decision, and how he makes this decision is reflective of his identity. In this poem, the paths are symbolic of the choices we make in life so when we take one path or the other, it represents our decisions that we make.We don't know how what lies beyond what we can see of the paths but we do know that whatever experiences we endure from this "path" will change our identity. The fact that the narrator took the path less traveled by reflects on his identity- he may be someone who likes being on edge or just wanted to try something different because if he were scared or shy, he probably would have taken the one that is more worn because it is obviously tried and trusted.