The Road Not Taken- the persona (1 Viewer)

[timtam]

Does anyone have any idea of how the persona in "the road not taken" reflects, explains and identifies the concept of journeys? Thanks

 

[lengstar]

The persona has a decision between two roads. In his mind he has to choose one of the two paths. Each path leads to its own journey, you don't know what the journey is. All he states is that on path is taken more than the other. This means that alot of people besides him have taken the first path and not as many people have taken the second path. The person decides to take the second path that not many people have taken. The paths represent life in general and the decisions we make everyday. The first path could be the subjects we choose to take in school. Most people would take the subjects that get better scaling as opposed to a subject which they might be good at and enjoy but doesn't get as good scaling. Another example is the type of job we take. Most choose a degree in business or commerce at university to work in an office. The second path could be that you decide to skip university and travel the world and end up working at a small shop in a far away country making toys or painting pictures. Each path leads to a journey that will happen in the future, THIS JOURNEY HAS NOT HAPPENED YET, and so this is how the concept of journeys is created because it is first imagined before it actually occurs.

 

[Sirius Black]

THIS JOURNEY HAS NOT HAPPENED YET, and so this is how the concept of journeys is created because it is first imagined before it actually occurs.

I think the only imaginative journy occurs at the last stanza -" somewhere ages and ages hence:"
Didn't Frost say that "I kept the first for another day"? how come the journey hasn't started?