Chance and Choice: Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

Question 6 • Language Arts 8 - ELA3008 IC

Based on Robert Frost’s poem "The Road Not Taken,” which lines most support the theme that people want to predict the outcome of important decisions?

Answer

And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I could

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:

Explanation

The speaker stands at the fork and looks as far down one road as possible, hoping to see where that choice might lead. This best supports the idea that people want to predict the outcomes of important decisions; choice C is about doubting whether he can return, not about trying to foresee the outcome.

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