This poem is about opportunities and choices. He may have chosen the unconventional road, but he did what he wanted and this has made him the man he is today. At the end of the poem even with the regrets, the choice of roads was a decision he made himself. Still the traveler is proud and pleased with the choice he did make, and realizes that this choice is what made him live his life the way he did. The traveler realizes at the end of his life, he will have regrets about the choice he make and he cannot go back and travel down the road he did not take then and wonders what his life would have been like had he chosen differently. Once again at the end of the poem the traveler expresses regret. The road the traveler does not take becomes the “Road Not Taken” as is the name of the poem. Once you choose you cannot turn back, it cannot be undone.
He realizes however “knowing how way leads to way”(14) that this decision is not just a temporary one and once made he “doubts if I should ever come back” (15), realizing that this choice will affect other choices he makes in the future. He tries to hold on to the possibility that he could still travel the other one also at another time. The traveler expresses the desire to be able to travel both roads. Leaves had fallen and it had been a long time since anyone had passed on this road. When a person comes to a point in life when they have to make a choice, they may feel like they are the only one that has ever been faced with this choice and are going somewhere no one else has been. Next Frost writes, “And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black”(11). After taking this road he relaxes that both paths are actually worn almost the same, indicating that an equal number of people have actually taken both paths, and he is not the first to go this way. He thinks he is independent, not afraid to strike out on his own. He does not necessarily follow the crowd, but tales the road that has never been traveled or is new and different. His choice helps show the type of person he was and his personality. He feels he choose the road that most people do not take because it is less traveled and not the most popular secure one. This road has a better claim because it was the one that appealed more to him and “it was grassy and wanted wear”(8). It is the way he chooses that sets him of on his journey of life and determines where he is going. Both roads lead to the unknown and although he tries to see as far as the road stretches he cannot see where it is going to lead. In attempting to make this decision the traveler “looks down one as far as I could,” trying to see the future and were this road might lead. He relaxes that in one lifetime it is impossible to travel down both roads and he has a difficult choice to make and is carefully considering his options as well as wondering where each could lead. There is regret before the choice is ever made. He cannot help but wonder what he will miss if he chooses this road over that one. This decision is always difficult to make because it is impossible not to wonder at the cost of taking this path over that one. He must decide, but is remorseful as Frost states “And sorry I could not travel both” (2).
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He is unable to take both paths at once and must make a decision about which way he would like to go or how to live his life. Robert Frost explains, a traveler comes upon “two road diverged in a yellow wood” (1). Life is a struggle to make the decision of which road to take, but a choice must be made. In the poem there is never just one road to take. Most people agree that in the poem that Frost was expressing the belief that it is the road or path that one takes or chooses that makes him the man who he is today and will be tomorrow. An opportunity to make a choice between two paths. As the title indicates the central theme of this poem is opportunity. The Road Not Taken can be interpreted many different ways.
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