s individual's personality is the type that likes to explore and expand beyond it's limits. His experimenting personality noticed the leaves that covered the ground. His decision was made on which path he would take when he made the statement since the time they had fallen "no step had trodden black" (stanza 2, line 7). Perhaps Frost does this because each time a traveler comes to this point they have to make a decision, something new, somewhere they have never been before. He expresses the desire to travel both paths by saying "I kept the first for another day" (stanza 2, line 8). However the speaker realizes his decision is a permanent choice, "knowing how way leads on to way" (stanza 2, line 9). This is common sense now that his choice will affect all of his other choices down the road in life. Once again at the end of the poem the regret sets in, realizing at the end of his life, "somewhere ages and ages hence" (stanza 3, line2) he changed the path of his life, wandering what was down the other road, which he did not take. However, he remains proud of his choices in life's decisions and realizes that his choice made him who he actually turned out to be. The poem, "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Frost has many valid meanings. Depending on the reader of the poem it may be interpreted in a different way or even misinterpreted at certain points throughout. He may have been trying to achieve a universal understanding. In other words, there is simply a traveler who makes a decision in his life that changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. Word Count: 661 ...
