ook this path over the more popular, secure one indicates the type of personality he has; one that does not want to necessarily follow the crowd but do more of what has never been done and is different. In the third stanza, the narrator says And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.(line 11-12). The leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one had yet to pass by on this road. Perhaps the narrator writes this because each time a person comes to a point where they have to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhere they have never been and they tend to feel as though no one else had ever been there either. I kept the first for another day!(line13). The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but knowing how way leads on to way(line 14), the speaker realizes that the decision is not just a temporary one and he doubted if I should ever come back.(line 15). This is his common sense of speaking and acknowledgment that what he chooses now will affect every other choice he makes afterward. Once you have performed an act or spoken a word that shows who you are, there is no turning back; it can not be undone. In the fourth stanza, regret seems to hang over the traveler. He realizes that at the end of his life, somewhere ages and ages hence(line 17), he will have regrets about having never gone back and traveling down the roads he did not take. Yet he remains proud of his decision and he recognizes that it was this path that he chose that made him turn out the way he did. I took the road less traveled by and that made all the difference.(line 19-20). To this man, what was most important and what really made the difference was that he did what he wished; even if it meant taking the road less traveled. If he hadnt, he wouldnt be the same man he had become. This could be Frost saying that not doing what everyone else did made all the difference in him bein...
