Robert Frost's Use Of Nature In His Poetry

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(Barry 13) of returning
when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He
also knew that the possibilities of him actually returning to ever walk the
path not chosen were very slim. He made a decision and "took the other"
(line 6) path. It is obvious that these two roads in the woods symbolize
paths in life and choices that people make in the journey of life itself.
Decisions that people make, large or small, have an impact on their future.
The speaker says that the path he choose "made all the difference" (line
20) in his life. Frost does not name specific decisions that are made and
he does not tell what the results are. He leaves the option open for the
reader to fill in his own circumstances that he has faced life. In lines
16 and 17 the speaker says that in "ages and ages hence" he would "be
telling this with a sigh". This shows that the he may be having "regrets
for the possibilities of the past. . . [and] is less concerned for the road
taken ...

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