Think about the poems and your analysis of their speakers, word choices, and themes. then write a paragraph in which you explain the two narrators’ reflections about choices. be sure to:

start your paragraph with a topic sentence.

include quotations of words and lines from the poems that support your ideas about choices.

1. 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 marked the first for another day!
yet knowing how way leads on to way
i doubted if i should ever come back. 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 traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.

2. if i can’t do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don’t want
to do
it’s not the same thing
but it’s the best i can
do
if i can’t have
what i want . . then
my job is to want
what i’ve got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more
to want. since i can’t go
where i need
to go . . then i must . . go
where the signs point
though always understanding
parallel movement
isn’t lateral. when i can’t express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
i know
but that’s why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry