could - (719). The road leads to the unknown, just as all choices in life do. It doesn't matter .
how far or hard one looks, the end is never in sight. Choosing determines what course in life the .
traveler will make. .
In the second stanza, " it was grassy and wanted wear- (719), indicates not as many .
travel down this path as the other one. To take this path would be different from others. The .
decision indicates the personality of the traveler. Leaders or lonely ones might take this route. .
"And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black- (719), starts the .
third stanza. Leaves are on the ground and until now, no one has come by this road. One .
assumes that all choices are new, that's why the ground looks so fresh. Frost points out the .
desire to travel both roads, "Oh, I kept the first for another day!- (719). "Yet knowing how way .
leads on to way- (719), illustrates maybe this isn't the first time one stumbles upon the path. He .
gives the secret away here with the word, knowing. Since "I doubted if I should ever come back- .
(719) is the last verse of the stanza, the idea conveys only one road is ever really possible to take. .
There is no use in trying to go back and relive parts of one's life that are over. .
At the end of the poem, the feeling of remorse is present again. "I shall be telling this with .
a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:- (719). Remorse is for the road not taken and the things .
missed. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--- (719). Obviously, the traveler is wiser or more .
mature since Frost omits the word yellow, unlike in the first verse. Yet he remains proud of his .
decision and he recognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way he did. "I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference- (719). .
Robert Frost expresses many suitable meanings in the poem. It is relatable for all readers. .