What Is The Tone Of The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost, author of the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” writes about a point in his life when he reaches a divide. He illustrates this concept through a fork in the woods, something that many people reading this would find themselves relating to. This section of the poem, along with the rest of the poem, is composed in such a way that every line from there onwards further explains how the story unfolds once one of the paths between the two that face a person, is chosen. It can be said that Frost understands the nature and psyche of humans because the route he took and his emotions and thoughts that developed after that decision are quite similar to what many people everywhere sometimes experience after they make a decision. In “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost addresses all those who have come across their own personal fork in the woods, emphasizing his belief that the path less travelled by makes the difference; however, his statement in the second stanza describing the two roads to be the same, his melancholy tone in the fourth stanza regarding the path he
He is standing at a point where he can see where both roads lead and he has to choose one path. Frost is referring to a point in the lives of people when they are confronted by two decisions, the same decisions that people in present-day or years before us have all encountered, and from those only one can be pursued. In the second stanza, Frost says that the path he chose was almost the same as the one he didn’t take. He makes it appear as if the one he chose was unlike the other one left behind, that not many have walked his path; however, in the second stanza he mentions, “Though as for the passing there / Had worn them really about the same,” meaning both paths have had an equal share of travellers. This disagrees with his final statement that the road less travelled by is what made the difference in his