What do you think this poem means? Please use examples from the poem to help support claims.


This poem means simply you always have a choice in life.

And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

There are two paths, the first that has been ignored many times, just for how it looks. The other one is clean, better looking, and many people have traveled down that road. It is a quick statement of how the human mind judges things by what they see, not what they know. Seeing the first path, people assume that where they'll end up is bad. That is only an assumption, they can't possibly know what is at the end of the first path if they have never seen it. Yet they have made up their minds based on a silly guess that could be far from right and they take the path that everyone else has.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

This is an example of someone who took the other option, who decided to take a chance and go where everyone else has ignored. People choose the same path others took, while this guy made his own path; he didn't follow everyone else. The point Frost is trying to get across is you should never judge things based on looks, and the choices you make shouldn't be based off of other people's choices. If you never make your choices on your own, or you never take a chance and take the road less traveled by, you will never know if you made the right choice.