The title 'The Road not taken' is an appropriate title for the poem. Comment.
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In the poem "The Road Not Taken," the speaker is sighing because he could not take both roads. He admits that he is "sorry" to not have had the opportunity to take both roads. This poem is about the road not taken. The speaker is reminiscent of the other road. What might have happened had he been able to take the road not taken? He studied both roads before deciding to take the road less traveled by:
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.
From this stanza, we learn that the reader stood a long time while deciding which road to take. He admits that he regrets not having been able to travel both roads. There is something about the road not taken that still haunts the speaker. He deliberated about which road to take. Finally deciding upon the road less traveled by, he states that it has made all the difference. The question is why is the speaker still sighing about the road not taken?
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.
Is he sighing because he is saddened by the fact he could not take both roads? Obviously, the speaker is thinking about the road not taken. Since way leads on to way, the speaker doubts that he will ever go back. Therefore, the road not taken will always be a memory of the road the speaker chose not to take. Would that road have made a difference? The speaker will never know for time has passed and he took the road less traveled by. If the road less traveled by has made all the difference, why is the reader still thinking about the road not taken? Life has a way of making us wonder what would have happened had the speaker taken the road not taken.