Question

Explain the third stanza of the poem THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost?

"AND BOTH THAT MORNING EQUALLY LAY
IN LEAVES NO STEP HAD TRODDEN BLACK.
OH, I KEPT THE FIRST FOR ANOTHER DAY!
YET KNOWING HOW WAYS LEAD ON TO WAY.
I DOUBTED IF I SHOULD EVER COME BACK.

Answer 1

The author was first in the morning to choose the road and he is saying that no leaves on the road which is not a beaten track have been disturbed and he would be the first one to walk on that day. He thought that he will go to the first road and then come back and try the second road but practically he said that was never possible...
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Answer 2

Answer:

The third Stanza says that when the speaker came upon the roads during his travels (symbolizing the course of his life), both roads were covered in autumn leaves that "no step had trodden black." The more walkers there are, the more trampled and mixed with earth the leaves on the path becomes.