to make a decision each person wants to carefully examine the unknown. In using sort of a checks and balances a person would weigh outthe risk factor to be involved. Frost uses the line, And looked down one as far as I could to portray an involved examination. The strain used in as far as I couldsymbolizes somewhat of a unknown content of where the path may lead. No matterwhat one knows of the beginning of a road there seems to be some unknown factor involved, as does any choice in life. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him offon his journey and where the road will take him.Then as we close out the first stanza, we establish that yet one road has been looked down as far as possible. However, the use of the semicolon after under-growth initiates a turn of the head to lead into the examination of the other road. (pg 133)Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim. What seems to have made it such a better claim is that it was grassy and wanted wear. It wasa road obviously not for everyone because it seemed that the majority of people took theother often traveled path. Therefore, Frost calls this the road less traveled by. The simple fact that the traveler chooses to take this path over the frequently chosen path, indicates the type of personality in the traveler. It shows that the individual is one to not particularly follow the crowd but sets him apart from the rest by doing something new and unique. It is often called the path of least resistance. In being somewhat of aneasier way with less obstacles to overcome. And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. The leaves had somewhat covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one hadyet to travel on this road. Perhaps Frost does this to show that each time a person comesto a point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them. It envisions that it is somewhere the traveler has never been. ...
