ndicator as to his character. He is very secure and doesn’t necessarily need to follow the crowd but would rather do his own thing. He wants to do what has never been done, what is new and different.“And both that morning equally lat in leaves no step had trodden black”. The leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no on had traveled on this road. Perhaps Frost does this because each time a person comes to the point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them. It is somewhere they have never been and they tend to fell as though no one else had ever been there either. “I kept the first for another day!” The desire to travel down both paths is not unusual, but “knowing how way leads on to way”, the speaker realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one and he “doubted if I should ever come back.” This is his common sense speaking and acknowledging that what he chooses now will affect every other choice he makes later on in his life. Once he has done something or spoken a word that indicates who he really is, there is no turning back, in cannot be undone.Once again at the end of the poem regret hangs over the traveler. He realizes that at the end of his life, “somewhere ages and ages hence”, he will have the regrets about having never gone back and traveling the road he did not take. Yet, he remains proud of his decision and recognizes that it was this path that he chose which helped him live the life he did. “I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference”. To this man, the most important thing was that he did not have to follow the crowd and could stand independent and travel down the road he really wanted to. If he had not, he would not be the same man he is now.There are many equally valid meanings to this poem and Robert Frost may have intended this. He may have been trying to achi...
