He must go down one but feels he will not be able to take back his decision. He looks to see the pros and cons of each choice, and then takes the one that he says the least had traveled. He leaves the outcome up to the reader. This leaves the reader the choice of deciding whether it is better to conform with society or rebel like Frost did and take up a less stable trade. .
There are many places to which this main interpretation can branch out. First of all, it is likely that the narrator in the poem was actually Frost. This can be inferred because the narrator took the road "less traveled by". This can also be said of Frost using different diction. Frost had an opportunity to graduate from Harvard twice, but each time turned it down until he was granted an honorary degree after excelling as a poet. The "average" person would probably have just stuck through Harvard the first time around, graduate and then chosen a more stable career. Thus the similarities between Frost and the narrator of the poem can be seen. The path symbolizes an extreamly hard choice in Frost's life. Each path is meaningful to frost. It is in the end that he chooses "the one less traveled by" or to Frost, the more difficult one.
Another viewpoint can be geared more towards the basic meaning of this poem: choices. Frost exhibits the common human nature of wanting to take both paths "Oh I marked the first for another day" (ln13), but later admits he "doubted if [he] should ever come back" (ln15). Thus, the poem's significance is Frost made his decision, picked a road and continued on with his life. The act of taking the road may signify his uniqueness and also show his humanly difference; he is constantly moving forward with his life, hardly stopping. .
There is one more hidden addition to this poem. Once, while traveling, a person (Frost) came to a fork in the road and could not decide which path to take. Finally he chose one of them due to the fact it seemed as though fewer people had walked the trail, although we can tell from the poem that there was no such difference (ln9-10).
