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Poetry Coursework Is it safe to assume that the choices we make affect our lives? The poems "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "The Choosing" by Liz Lochhead both deal with the theme of choices and the consequences of choices we make. The poem "The Road Not Taken" is more symbolic ("Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"), metaphorical ("And looked down one as far as I could/to where it bent in the undergrowth") and it gives the reader some advice for their own choices. "The Choosing" is written more with a personal tone as if the poet had experienced the events first hand ("But from the top deck of the high-school bus/I'd glimpse among the others in the corner"). I enjoyed the second poem for its more personal tone rather than the general wise tone of the first. However in analysing them I have found that "The Road...

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