![]() ![]() This is a good piece of knowledge for everyone moving along the road of life, since one path inevitably brings one to another from which there is seldom a return to the original set of choices. Speaking of his progress from one road to another, the author says: In a sense, this makes our lives one of forgone opportunities, for all opportunities are gained at the expense of forsaking other ones. His movement along the road, bypassing the juncture, is parallel to that of the movement in the usual case of a life choice, where one proceeds irrespective of one’s choice, abandoning all other options that were available. In passing the place where the road bends in two, the author deserts the first road in favor of his preferred un-traveled one. ![]() The relationship of the author to the other road is another important revelation to the reader where yet another piece of philosophical wisdom is revealed through metaphorical means. Choosing the road where “no step had trodden black”, Frost plunges in a complex, challenging world where new issues await at every corner. The grass on the road can be understood as symbolizing the things one can accomplish on the less travelled road, as deeds that are awaiting the person who will come and tackle the task. ![]() This turns to be the famous road “less travelled by”. The points of comparison between the two physical roads parallel those that life paths have: one road, the preferred one, was “grassy and wanted wear”. These can be understood in the variety of ways – as a career choice, as the choice of a vocation, as a choice in love life, or general trend of what one makes more important – serving people, for example, or self-actualization. Instead, these roads signify larger images of paths one takes in life. The author makes a choice not between the actual roads in the wood. The metaphorical meaning of the poem is concentrated in the image of the two roads. Sadness coupled with realization of his correct choice underpin the mood at the end of the poem. This is why the author acknowledges that he “shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence”. Sometimes it offers choices that none of us want to make. Yet his desire to follow the first road as well coupled with his realization that taking one road means abandoning another lead to sadness caused by the fact that life is not always what one wants it to be. The author plunged forward, toward the road he preferred. ![]()
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