Decisions are always hard to make. It is impossible not to wonder what would have happened before you made your decision and what could have happened after you made your decision. Frost shows this in the line "And sorry I could not travel both" Knowing one can not travel every path there is a realization that one is always missing out on something in life. When the traveler is about to make his decision he "looks down one as far as I could". The road leads to the unknown, as do choices in life. When he looks at the paths he does not know where they lead, nor does he

At the end of the poem the feeling of regret strikes the traveler. "This poem is usually interpreted as an assertion of individualism, but critic Lawrence Thompson has argued that it is a slightly mocking satire on a perennially hesitant walking partner of Frost's who always wondered what would have happened if they had chosen their path differently." He realizes at the end of his life, "somewhere ages and ages hence", he will have regrets about having never going back and traveling down the road he did not take. Yet he remains proud of his decision and recognizes that the path he chose made him who he is. "I took the road less traveled by and that had made all the difference." To the traveler what was most important was the fact that he did what he wanted even if the one he chose was less traveled. If he had taken the other path he would be different than he is now.

"And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black." The leaves had covered the ground and since the time they had fallen no one has passed on the road. Frost does this because each time a person comes to the point where they have to make

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)