Do you see a recurring theme in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" & "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"? I see one being "The journey can be...

Whilst I do think there are recurring elements in these
two excellent poems, I have to say that I do not agree with your proposed statement as
it stands. I do not see how the statement "The journey is as important as the
destination" is relevant to either poem, though I can perhaps see a tenuous link to "The
Road Not Taken." In my thinking, if I were to compare the themes of these two poems, I
would want to analyse the role of regret and how it is presented in both of
them.

Note how in "The Road Not Taken," the regret of the
speaker is concentrated in the last stanza:

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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 travelled
by,

And that has made all the
difference.

We see how the
symbolic meaning of the poem, the different decisions that we have to make in life and
how once made, we are unable to go back and see where a different decision would have
led us, haunts the speaker uncomfortably. Note the reference to how the speaker will be
telling this "with a sigh." The thought of what could have been and where he would be
now if he had taken that other road in life fills him with
regret.

Likewise, in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
the regret is focussed in the last stanza too:

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The woods are lovely, dark, and
deep,

But I have promises to
keep,

And miles to go before I
sleep,

And miles to go before I
sleep.

Note how the
repetition of the last line focuses the attention of the reader on the feeling of regret
that he is unable to stay in the "lovely" woods and his feeling of reluctance concerning
the "promises" he has to keep and how that drives him to leave the woods. Clearly,
symbolically the desire for rest or death is symbolised in the woods, but the various
demands and responsibilities of life are represented by the "promises" that the speaker
needs to keep. His regret though is signalled in the repetition of the thought of the
"miles" that lay before him before he can "sleep."

I hope
these ideas help. Of course, you might find another link between the two poems that you
might want to write about. Good luck!