This
paper reviews two poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost,
and discusses them in contrast to each other. The
paper illustrates these two
poems as literary works that imagine how life might be if the narrator had acted differently. The paper shows how the two poems are almost opposites in their intent and impact. Eliot's poem is described as a lamentation over a life not lived, over a failure to act. Whereas Frost's poem is portrayed as a celebration over an unconventional life, bravely and boldly lived.