Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

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.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

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.

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" depicts an image of a solitary traveler who has come to a fork in the road during his journey and must make a decision on which way to proceed. I chose this piece to present for Design Studio primarily because my interpretation seems to go right along with the story.

While many interpretations can be made from this poem, I believe this piece is about the difficulty of making choices. The main proof of this is that the speaker in the poem actually states his or her desire to travel the two roads, but they cannot do so. A speaker taking the independent route and going against mainstream ideology would not long to travel the road "more" taken, if there truly was a discernible difference between the two roads.

Further proof that the poem is about the difficulty of choosing comes from the indecision emanating from line 13 in which the speaker states that they kept the first road for another day. It can be argued that a speaker who proudly chose the road less traveled would not long to explore the other road later in their life.