The Road Not Taken

1. The Road Not Taken
The most common interpretation of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is that the speaker is
trying to decide which road to take. Does he want to take the road that everyone else takes
because it is easier and all the clearing has been done for him, or does he want to take a chance
and take the road less traveled and he has to clear his own path? The poet is trying to convey a
much deeper meaning. The poem is an excellent example of the use of symbolism .The poet uses
the two roads to symbolize choices made in life. The yellow road indicates that the poem is taking
place in autumn, which denotes that the speaker is in the later years of his life. The use of these
simple images emphasizes that no matter how simple or unimportant a choice may...show more
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Nature in this poem sets the scene and can hold a metaphorical meaning as well. "TWO roads
diverged in a yellow wood," (line 1) sets the scene, the speaker tells the reader the woods are
yellow, so we can conclude that the poem is taking place in autumn. This could be a metaphor for
the time in the speaker's life that he is making this decision. The fall of his life when he is
beginning to get old." To where it bent in the undergrowth;" (line 5), the reader finds out the woods
must be pretty thick, because the road can disappear in the undergrowth, could represent an aspect of
the speaker's future that he is unsure of." And having perhaps the better claim,/Because it was grassy
and wanted wear"(lines 7–8) the speaker is bias in favor of nature, he thinks one path may be better
than the other because fewer people have worn it down. These lines are a metaphor for a decision
that is less commonly made." And both that morning equally lay/in leaves no step had trodden black,
(lines 11–12) here the reader sees autumn images continue. It appears that it is morning time. There
is a contradiction to an earlier claim that one path is less traveled. The lines tell the reader the
leaves have just fallen masking that the path was more or less traveled. Metaphorically this points
out there is ultimately no way to tell which choice is
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