The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

In the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the message is that everyone should be able to have a choice about what path in life he or she takes. In the poem, the speaker is walking along a path when the road splits into two. One path is more used and popular, but the other path is not used as much. This helps the reader understand the poem by explaining that you could either go the road more used and become like everyone else, or you could take the road not taken and be your own person within your own life. The speaker ends up choosing the latter but the poem shows him debating the choice even after he has started walking. An example of this is when it states, “and be one traveler, long I stood.” The two roads are a metaphor for choosing
When you look into your future you can only see into the near future; you may have an idea of what happens later, but the path might change. The speaker has a very hopeful attitude and knows that he chose the road less taken but he still has hope that one day he might come back and take the other road. “Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” This quote explains the message by saying that life goes on in whichever path you choose but sometimes people can go back and try out the other path. The speaker wants to take both roads, “and sorry I could not travel both,” but knows he can’t. At the end of the poem, the reader can assume that the narrator has some regrets from his choice. “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence.” When you say something with a sigh, you are usually thinking with regret or longing for the other path: pondering what could have been. The poem ends by saying, “two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The path that the speaker took changed his life completely because he got to make his own choices and not be influenced by anyone