Road Not Taken

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. His reason for this indecision is that “knowing how way lead on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. He wants to hold on to the other possibility, but knows this cannot be possible. He makes the choice based on who he is and what choices he has made in the past. By taking this road, a clue to Frost’s personality is exposed. This is where the reader makes his choice. However, he still cannot decide which one of the roads to travel on. There is a strong sense of wonder before the choice is made because he knows that in one lifetime he cannot travel down on every road. The speaker seems to be content with his choice, yet he tells it with a sigh. This poem is about choices because of our inability to travel on both paths at once in one lifetime. The speaker has a difficult choice to make and is carefully considering his options, but he must choose one of the roads to travel. The leaves that cover the ground have not been stepped on and “no step had trodden black,” indicates that no one has traveled down the road since the leaves haven fallen. ” He takes the other road that is “grassy and wanted wear;” indeed, the road he chooses has a “better claim” because it is the road that is less traveled on. Here, he knows he is bound by that choice.