I chose to write about Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' (http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_road.html or page 245 of I.P.). The persona is the author, or the author writing as another. It tells a story of a person who is traveling in the forest and comes across a break in paths, and chooses to walk the one not traveled. He walks down this path for a long while, and he knows that if he lets curosity take control, he will keep traveling and eventually become lost. He ends the poem by saying how when he is older, he will look back on this experince and be glad he took the road less traveled. Although this may seem like a simple anecdote about a man roaming the woods, I believe it conveys a deeper message. I think Frost is trying to imply that although it is easier to conform and do what everyone else is doing, one should stride against the norm, or perhaps even an injustice, for it will pay off in the end. The lines "Yet knowing how way leads on to way/I doubted if I should ever come back"( "The Road Not Taken" 245) are an important part of this message, implying that once you start to fight against something, it is impossible to be re-accepted by society and its current standards. In the last stanza, the lines "I shall be telling this with a sigh...I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference" ("The Road Not Taken" 245) implies that tackling a wrong in society will make you remembered, because it is so difficult to do, and an important part of history to future people. This poem adovcates the strength and power of one person to mobolize change.