Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" Literature Essay (Essay Sample)

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A deconstructive analysis of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken
Deconstructionism is a modern-day theory in philosophy and literature whereby a skeptical, literary criticism approach is taken on the traditional understanding of the meaning of words (Blomberg 44). Words are broken down (deconstructed). For example, the age-old question "What is the truth?" if deconstructed would mean questioning the very nature of the word truth. Hence, answers could have a wide range depending on subjective experience. Deconstructionism concerns exploring all the possibilities, and probably endless arguments for meanings of words, debunking them, rationalizing them and so on (Attridge 2). Questioning of truth and generally accepted facts is useful both critically and analytically.
In literature, poems come loaded with lots of meanings, implications, and messages to different sorts of people. The Road Not Taken is one poem that can be deconstructed adequately. Frost uses a lot of symbolism in the verse; the words used convey meanings deeper than just the traditional notions of the word (Robson 31). For example:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.