Formulate an idea of what you think the road may represent. Explain why you think that.
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Answer:
These roads represent the choices man has to make that determine the outcome of his life. Career, marriage, education--all are selections that one makes as he goes through life..
Explanation:
The first person point of view enables the narrator to speak directly to the reader about the alternatives that he has before him. When the poem begins, it is fall with the leaves turning yellow. The man comes to a “Y” in the road. Indecisive about which way to go, the narrator establishes that he would like to move down both paths; but that is an impossibility. He stands and contemplates the options carefully:
A. One road has a bend which is hard to see. Both have equal wear and apparently have not been disturbed since the leaves had fallen. He decides that if he comes back to this spot again [which he doubts], that it will be the path he follows.
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth