Explication For The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost starts the poem, “The Road Not Taken” by painting a picture in the readers minds that there are two roads that veer off into two different places. Frost realizes that he is only able to travel down one of the roads at a time. But what Frost doesn’t realize is that once he starts down one path, he may not be able to return back to go down the other path as well. Robert Frost’s, “The Road Not Taken” teaches a lesson about decisions and how one “small” decision can impact an individual’s life forever through an extended metaphor.
Robert Frost is conflicted with which path he should take, so he looks down both roads for as far as he can see to make a decision. He looks as far as he can until there is a bend in the undergrowth and he
This may indicate that Robert Frost likes the feeling of taking chances and opportunities that other individuals haven’t taken before. Although later, he talks about how the grass was worn down, “Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,” which means that the road may have been discovered more than he initially
Readers are able to tell that he knows he cannot go back when he says, “And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black.” He also begins to notice that one road can lead to many others when he says, “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back” because he knows it is too late to turn back and explore the other road at this point.
Robert Frost makes his audience question if he feels satisfied with the road he chose to take. Frost’s audience is flustered when he says, “I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence:” because the audience doesn’t know why Frost would be regretting his decision because he shows no signs of being unsatisfied with his choice throughout the rest of the poem. Those two lines also open up questions as to why he may regret his decision and if he is actually disappointed with