had to make the same decision, sometimes people feel isolated when faced with a tough choice. The next line in the stanza, Oh, I kept the first for another day! expresses the speakers desire to go down both paths. At this point, he is leaning towards jumping on the bandwagon and following everybody else. However, the turning point in his internal struggle comes with, Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. He is realizing that no choice is temporary, that he must face the consequences of his decision and not go back in time and do things differently if he is unhappy with what path he has chosen for himself. Also, he surely realizes that one path will lead to many others, that this first choice will affect every choice thereafter. There is pressure to choose wisely, a pressure every person feels at one time or another.The speaker decides his fate in the final stanza. Although he realizes that he is taking a chance in this being a wrong decision and that he may regret it later, he accepts this fate: I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence. It is important to come to terms with the possibility, even the certainty of eventually regretting a decision and missing out on the other road and other opportunities. Nonetheless, the speaker is proud of his decision not follow the crowd. He recognizes that choosing the path he did, the road less traveled, helped him to become the person he is at the point of the writing. He chose to be his own man and not follow the crowd in the lines, Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.Regardless of the original intent of the message, the speaker conveys the more inspirational message that taking the road he eventually chose made him the person he is. In being forced to choose and face the consequences, he was afraid to make a wrong decision. He is better off for having ev...
