Comparative Analysis - "The Road Not Taken", Robert Frost "You Left & I Moved On" Nikita Gill

“The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost

“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 kept 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.”

“You Left & I Moved On”, Nikita Gill

“What else

was I going to do

with all this fire

you left inside me?

I had two choices-

find someone

to share it with,

Or to burn alive.

In both “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “You Left & I Moved On”, Nikita Gill the topic of the impact of our decisions on our future and happiness is addressed.
Frost makes independent decisions not influenced by the norms of society. Some of his choices are ones the lesser of the population would have chosen, but that is what makes him unique. In Gill’s poem she has the option of mourning over her breakup and blaming herself for being who she is not. In reality, she should not have to change who she is for the relationship to work. Her partner should love her unconditionally for who she is. 
Frost writes with simple language and a nonchalant tone. In contrast of Frost’s poem, feelings of anger and sadness are felt in Gill’s poem. Another contrasting part of each poem is in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”, the poet is met with two choices to make. The choice many before him have chosen, or to make his own decision. In “You Left & I Moved On”, the poet is forced to make a decision based on the situation of the poet.

There are also very different poetic devices used with each poem. In “The Road Not Taken”, there is alliteration and personification used. There is also, obviously, the giant metaphor the entire poem is about, as the two roads represent choices.

In “You Left & I Moved On”, the main poetic devices used are metaphors, as the poet refers to her love to her past partner as “fire” and her mourning and sadness as being “burned alive”
Though there are many differences between both poems, they each represent how important everyday decisions are.