t that people are too afraid to be different. Verse 12 is
             interesting when the speaker says that, "In leaves no step had trodden black,"
             which the reader could interpret meaning that few people who did choose to
             take the road less traveled did not come across any difficulties or obstacles.
             He then goes on to say that, "Oh, I kept the first for another day," as to say
             that it took him a long time to make his decision. Actually, it may have been
             months or even years before the speaker chose a road. He knew that the
             decision he made would determine the outcome of his life, and that he would
             have to be devoted to the road he chose. Once he made this decision, he
             would probably never be able to turn back.
             In the third stanza, he says that both roads lay in leaves that no one had
             trampled down. In other words, both roads were in about the same condition;
             it is what the man does with his choice that makes the difference. The tone of
             the last stanza, then, is simply matter-of-fact rather than self-pitying. One
             cannot know, when he makes a choice, what the results of his decision will
             be. Rather than being sorry that he took the untravelled road, the poet seems
             to be saying that he would probably do the same thing again. The speakers
             tone seemed to have changed with confidence. This confidence, shown in
             verse eighteen, when the speaker repeats the first verse, except he leaves out
             the word yellow. Purposely leaving out the word yellow is an example of
             imagery. In the first stanza, yellow meant the color of the trees and foliage,
             and in the third stanza, they are no longer yellow. Also in the third st
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