Road Not Taken

The Poem The Road not Taken by Robert Frost explores the fundamental question of free will often pondered in philosophy. Frost is speaking and indirectly addressing the unique path each person will end up traveling in their lifetime. Every day humans are faced with decisions; nevertheless, humans are also granted with the ability to choose their future. While humans may attempt to weigh each choice and predict the consequence of the given decision, it is not possible to predict the future outcomes. Also, it is likely that those making a decision often attempt to look down one path as far as one can "to where it bends in the undergrowth" or as far as one can predict. However, there will always be variables preventing humans for foreseeing too far into the future.

Therefore, Frost chooses to affirm that most people will not come back to that same fork in the road. Ultimately, philosophical ideals concerning the question on free will were likely what inspired Frost to write his compelling poem. The freedom of choice is explored in this poem as well as the possibility of predestination versus free will: the ability human’s possess to make choices. Some can argue that Frost’s path was already set out but in fact he was the one who had control of the option that he knew he would later reminisce on. For example, Sartre, a philosopher believes that humans simply exist and are free to make their own meaning of life. His ideals on freewill are likely to be once source from where Frost drew his inspiration or developed his fundamental ideals on. In Sartre’s essay “The Humanism of Existentialism,” he states his philosophical position that “existence precedes