This paper explains that "The Road Not Taken" is one of the most famous, discussed and analyzed poems of Robert Frost, four-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize and arguably America's leading 20th-century poet. The paper points out that Frost stuck to the traditional "rhyme and meter" of
poetry when other poets were experimenting with open forms of poetry such as "free versed". The
author relates that "The Road not Taken" seems to be a simple, straight forward statement of the dilemma of making choices in one's life but lends itself to differing interpretations according to the reader' own paradigms, which the author feels is the quality that prevents it from becoming trite and one-dimensional.