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. In other words, there is no judgment, no specificity, no moral. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his life that had changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem. Robert Frost is one of the finest of rural New England’s 20th century pastoral poets. His poems are great bination of wisdom, harmony and serenity. They are simple at first sight, but demand readers for deep reading to grasp further meaning beyond surface.The famous poem of Frost The Road Not Taken is my favorite. This poem consists of four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB. the rhymes are strict and masculine, with notable exception of the last line. There are four stressed syllables each line, varying on iambic tetrameter (四步抑揚(yáng)格) base.The Road Not Taken tells about life choice. Man’s life is metaphorically related to a journey filled with twists and turns. One has to consider a lot before making a wise choice. Though the diverged roads seem identical, they actually lead to different directions, which symbolize different fates.A less than rigorous look at the poem may lead one to believe that Frost’s moral is embodied in those lines. The poem is taken as a call to independence, preaching originality and Emersonian selfreliance. The poem deconstructs its conclusion stanza by stanza.At the beginning of this poem, the poet shows the inability of human beings to foresee the future, especially the results of choices. At the split in the road, the speaker looks far down both the two paths to see what each of the paths will bring. However, his sight is limited。 his eyes can only see the path until it bends into “the undergrowth”. Man is free to choose, but doesn’t know beforehand the results of his choice.Both roads diverge into a “yellow wood” and appear to be “about the same” in their purposes. The first path is a more mon route. The other is less traveled, which “was grass and wanted wear”. The poet presents a conflict here—the decision between the mon easy path and exceptional challenging path. The two different paths signify two different kinds of lives. Choosing the mon easy path, people will feel at ease and live in safety, because the oute is predictable. However, that kind of life may be less exciting and lack of novelty. While choosing the “l(fā)ess traveled” road represents the gamble of facing a more difficult path in lives. This forms contrast with familiar lives of most people. People hope to achieve a satisfactory and interesting life on this road. The wish is good, but reality is full of challenges and uncertainties. Nobody can be sure of the oute. After vacillating (猶豫) between the two roads, the poet finally decides to take the road “l(fā)ess traveled by” and leads a different life from mon people. This may indicate his choice to be a poet, other than other jobs. The poet makes up his mind to dedicate himself to poem writing, which is regarded as a less mon career.Once the decision is made, there will be no way to return to the original choice to experience the other route. So the poet utters “Yet knowing h