The Road Not Taken--Poetry Analysis

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

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, as 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,
And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken is about the paths and choices we make in life. Whether young or old, we still have important choices ahead of us.  The poem is specific.  Two paths made which are very important to the traveler.  The Traveler wants to go down both, but cannot and so must choose.  From a religious stand point these could be seen as the turning point in a persons' life.  A point where they either choose to do good or bad. The Traveler ended up choosing the better choice because he traveled the path less traveled which to him made him happy. Others might not be happy with this idea but this Traveler was and made that choice as we all have to choose in this life.