the road not taken

             Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
             And sorry I could not travel both
             And be one traveler, long I stood
             And looked down one as far as I could
             To where it bent in the undergrowth;
             Then took the other, just as fair,
             And having perhaps the better claim,
             Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
             Though as for that, the passing there
             Had worn them really about the same,
             And both that morning equally lay
             In leaves no step had trodden black.
             Oh, I kept the first for another day!
             Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
             I doubted if I should ever come back.
             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 traveled by,
             In Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", Frost writes of
             how decisions he made, or the roads that he took, made him the
             There is a strong sense of regret before the decision is even made
             "And sorry I could not travel both"(513). It is difficult to make a
             decision and one will always wonder about the opportunities lost and
             what was missed if a different decision was made.
             "Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better
             claim"(513). What made one road appear to be a better choice than the
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