Question

Which detail in the text best develops the theme that life presents many choices for us to make?

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Answer 1

The detail that best develops the theme that life presents many choices for us to make is the speaker's description of the two roads diverging in the yellow wood. The speaker states, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," which immediately introduces the idea of a fork in the road and a decision that needs to be made. This image of the two paths represents the various choices that life presents to us. The speaker's dilemma of not being able to travel both roads and having to make a choice emphasizes the theme of decision-making and the significance of the choices we make in life.