In Robert Frost's poem ''The Road Not Taken'' there is a pervasive and in many ways intrinsic sense of the journey through. In doing so, the poem explores an aspect associated with human decision, or indecision, versus the oxymoron, that choices with the least difference should bear the greatest indifference, but realistically involve the greatest difficulty. This is conveyed through the use of several crucial techniques. Where the first example is the use of an extended metaphor, where the poem as a whole becomes the literary embodiment of something more, the journey of life. The second technique used is the first-person writing style. Using this, the reader can describe a clear line of thought of the walker and understand why and how he made the choice he made and the ramifications of that choice. Finally, we can depict a clear repetition of indecision throughout the first three stanzas, indecision that ultimately proves fruitless and subsequently tells us more than reaching a clear decision ever could. First, we have the extended metaphor, which is established by many to be related to the ''journey'' of one's life and the choices one makes. The idea and subsequent meaning of the metaphor extends its application from the difficulty of a single choice, but can be interpreted as a lifetime and how choices made over time can never be withdrawn. Also deepening a sense of regret and loss of a human characteristic, "the desire to know" what would or could have happened if the other path or choice had been taken. This is shown in the line “sorry I couldn't travel both” which indicates the regret above and also explains the traveler's immediate response. The use of t...... in the center of the sheet ...... oem ''The Road Not Taken'' is a clear representation of the choices one is forced to make during the ''journey'' of own life. In doing so, it also highlights that you can realistically make only one choice at a time and the inherent regret that comes with it. It adheres to the logical conclusion that people can never go back from their actions, but only learn to live with them. In many cases, this poem is a journey into the human psyche in relation to the human assumption that we can control anything. In fact, this is why we convince ourselves, if the choices are sufficiently different, that we have made the right one. However, this hypothesis demonstrates our greatest inadequacy, when faced with two equal choices we do not have this type of self-delusion, we can never be sure. This means that choices without a difference are the most difficult.