Many poem use symbolism to reveal certain parts of life or to say something important about life and about people. Symbolism helps the details of a poem to say more and mean more. For example, in the symbolize leaving to make a difficult decision in life. In the poem, the author tells of a situation where the speaker comes across a fork in the road and he has to decide which road he is going to take. If the poem did not contain symbolism and was merely a story about a person walking in the woods, it would not be such an appealing and memorable work. In fact, it would be pretty dull. However, when we assume that the two roads symbolize hard decisions we have to make in life, then the poem becomes far more interesting to us.
             What does Robert Frost tell us about making decisions through the symbolism in the poem? First of all, we are told that the two roads are quite similar. One is as fair as the other and "both that morning equally lay/in leaves no step had trodden black." What this symbolizes is that in life, difficult decisions usually involve alternatives that are closely balanced. There are advantages and disadvantages that have to be weighed. Ideally, we would like to have it all and not have to choose, but life is not like that. when we come to a "fork in the road" we have to decide which road to take.
             The speaker looks down one road and then goes down the other. He expresses regret that he could not take both roads. He tries to make himself feel better by saying that he left "the first for another day." However, he realizes that this is unlikely. The symbolism of roads makes it clear because "one way leads on to way," it is very doubtful that he will ever come back to take the other road. The same is true about life. One decision lead to other decisions and we can never return to where or what we were before making that decision.
             The speaker in this poem tells us that he took the road " less traveled by." this suggests tha...