![]() ![]() While the narrator made his choice independently without any external force, he still regrets it. The poem isn’t about individuality or uniqueness, it’s about accepting the fact that regret will always be there. This is the consolation he has created to calm his mind and let him make a choice. But in order to keep going, he must make a choice. He doubts he will get a chance again to make the same decision, as it is with life. The narrator makes his choice by telling his mind that he will take this road and explore the opportunities later. So what must he do to keep moving? That is where the next line saying “I kept the first for another day” comes. He tries to assume one path is better, different than the other, but soon realizes that it isn’t. So he started giving attributes to each, to make his mind decide one road so that he can move ahead. The roads were similar, both were “less traveled.” But inside the mind of the narrator, this similarity was causing him to stop. This shows an important part of the reality of the roads (and the choices) as well as the thinking of the narrator. In the very next line, the narrator says this The second road is described as “just as fair” though it was “grassy and wanted wear.” So one might think that the other road was less traveled, right? Not exactly. The roads are very similar to each other, which is the reason for the dilemma. That is the truth about life and its decisions. He says “I shall be telling you with a sigh.” This means that he isn’t calling his decision good or bad, it just means that no matter what choice he took, regret was inevitable. It is popularly thought that the narrator of The Road Not Taken chooses the less traveled road and hence it made all the difference, the fact is, there was no road that was “less traveled.” While Frost says that he took the road less traveled and that has made all the difference, pay attention to what precedes before that.
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