Fill in the blanks to complete the following paragraph that gives the theme of the poem. Use the words given in the box below:

decision, sorry, foresee, choices

pleasant, direction, fork, trail

rewarding, chance, wonder, both

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about the 1. that one makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a 2. in the road he is travelling upon. He feels 3. that he cannot travel 4. paths as he must choose one. Frost uses this fork in the road to represent a point in the man’s life where he has to choose the 5. he wishes to take in life. As he thinks about his 6. he looks down one path as far as he can see trying to 7. what life will be like if he walks that path. He then gazes at the other and decides the outcome of going down that path would be just as 8. At this point he concludes that the 9. that has been less travelled on would be more 10. when he reaches the end of it. The man then decides that he will save the other path for another day, even though he knows that one path leads to another and that he won’t get a 11. to go back. The man then says that he will be telling this story with a sigh someday in the future suggesting that he will 12. what life would have been like if he had chosen the more walked path even though the path he chose has made all the difference?