Poem analysis

The Road Not Taken

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 marked 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. 

Robert Frost

Analysis:

In this poem Frost is the speaker and he tells us how he encounters two different roads. One of the roads was represented the easy way or the most chosen and the other the hardest or the one less chosen. Even when he chooses he has doubt that maybe he should have taken the other one or go back. Then he realized that taking the less travelled road has made all the difference. This is applied in our life in making decisions easy one or hard ones. Sometimes the choice that you think is the worse could turn out to be the best. He uses nature and the woods as a way to express daily choice making. This poem is made up of four stanzas of five lines, each with a rhyme scheme of ABAAB.