Let's take the road less traveled!

Samantha Shepherd
English 103
Cerritos College
Post #3

After getting a stern talking to from Mr. H, instead of going home and knocking out on my day off because I've been running on a few hours sleep from earlier this week, I dragged myself to the computer lab to get the first half of my homework out of the way. I looked over all the poems, and I believe the one that stuck out to me the most (in other words, the easiest one to write about because I am running on no sleep here) was The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. In the poem he talks about how the protagonist was wandering around in the woods and that he came to a fork in the road. There was a divergence of two different roads and they both looked beautiful to him, but one seemed to be traveled on more. He decided then to go down the road "less traveled" because he felt that it had the "better claim" (in other words looked more appealing). He walks down the road and he says that all the difference was in taking the road less traveled by people.
I believe that this poem can be applied to the many things that we were discussing today regarding Homonyms. We talked about how there are many classifications that we, as human beings, place ourselves and other people in, but how in reality, we would find it much better if we didn't have any classifications, if we didn't label which would be the road less traveled. How much better would our lives be, how free could we be if we didn't label ourselves. Labeling, stereotypes, classifications and any other synonym that you can come up with just provides us with yes, organization, but limitations as well. I'd rather be chaotic in mind and be free to be any kind of person that I want to be, without being judged by society because of the certain specific classifications that I am placed in. Yes, I know that that sounds hypocritical because the other day I mentioned that I label myself as a good (for the most part), Catholic girl, but those are just limitations that I put on myself because I believe that they can make me a better person. The limitations that I am speaking of that relate to this poem are those that are of race, intelligence, school, friends, personality traits such as being nice, bitchy, stupid, etc. and even where one lives.
I think that if we find ourselves in a position where we can choose not to be judgmental and if we could take the road less traveled, it really would "make all the difference."