Does the poet tell
us what difference it
made?
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Answer:
The poet chose the road less travelled by. This indicates that he believes in charting his own path in life rather than doing what others expect him to do.
Explanation:
What makes all the difference is that the speaker chose to follow a path in life on which few others had trodden. He chose to go his own way in life, ignoring what others had done before him. Whether that was a good thing or not is a matter of interpretation. Certainly, Frost seemed to regard the ending of the poem as somewhat ambiguous.
For the speaker, choosing one path inevitably involved avoiding the other. And who knows what that path may have led to? The grass is always greener on the other side, as they say, and the speaker of the poem gives the impression—expressed through a "sigh" in the last stanza—that he firmly believes this. He seems to regret the choice of path, the direction of life, that he took. It "made all the difference," but not necessarily in a good way.