In the poem "The Road Not Taken," the speaker is sighing
because he could not take both roads. He admits that he is "sorry" to not have had the
opportunity to take both roads. This poem is about the road not taken. The speaker is
reminiscent of the other road. What might have happened had he been able to take the
road not taken? He studied both roads before deciding to take the road less traveled
by:
Two roads
diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be
one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To
where it bent in the
undergrowth.
From this
stanza, we learn that the reader stood a long time while deciding which road to take. He
admits that he regrets not having been able to travel both roads. There is something
about the road not taken that still haunts the speaker. He deliberated about which road
to take. Finally deciding upon the road less traveled by, he states that it has made all
the difference. The question is why is the speaker still sighing about the road not
taken?
I shall
be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And
that has made all the
difference.
Is he sighing
because he is saddened by the fact he could not take both roads? Obviously, the speaker
is thinking about the road not taken. Since way leads on to way, the speaker doubts that
he will ever go back. Therefore, the road not taken will always be a memory of the road
the speaker chose not to take. Would that road have made a difference? The speaker will
never know for time has passed and he took the road less traveled by. If the road less
traveled by has made all the difference, why is the reader still thinking about the road
not taken? Life has a way of making us wonder what would have happened had the speaker
taken the road not taken.
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