The Road Not Taken and Citizen Kane

At the first reading of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, what came to my mind immediately is a relatively apparent theme of this poem: choices people make for their lives. Including me, we all make choices or decisions every single day. Yet, if we could go back to the past and change our choices, things would be totally different from how they have been now; more importantly, we might not become who we are today. In addition, regrets, happiness, sadness and other emotions or feelings might come to our mind when we think of our past; also, they are parts of our memories. Combing these ideas together inevitably reminds me of a film by Orson Welles titled Citizen Kane. In the following paragraphs, I am going to show how Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken along with Citizen Kane of Orson Welles connect to our daily lives, what their viewpoints to the destiny and choices are and how they are profoundly presented.
At the very beginning of the poem, The Road Not Taken, I would propose that we are exposed to one of the themes of the poem- choice. ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both,’ depicts that we all have to make decisions and choose a way for our own destiny while standing in a crossroad of choices. Additionally, at the end of the first stanza, we could see that people would try to catch a glimpse of their future before making choices. I would imply the reason why people would try to foresee their lives is due to the uncertainty or the expectation of better lives.