The Fork in Life Robert Frost writes about a person’s lust for life, greed, and life changing decisions in his poem “The Road Not Taken.” The speaker’s an adventurous man who’s seen the choices which lie ahead and wants to have both. He is regretful even before he makes his decision about which path to take. He wistfully notes, “sorry be that I could not travel both.”(line 2). His greed gives him …showed first 75 words of 565 total…

…showed last 75 words of 565 total…the mediocre life he had so been avoiding. In his greed, or lust for life he’d just been fooling himself so when he says, “ it has made all the difference,”(line 20). It feels empty. He notes that, “ages and ages hence,” (line 17). He took the less traveled path, the reflection leaves him empty. He says nothing more about the other path, he is aware of its destination. It ends where his feet are standing.