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What do the two roads symbolize in the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?

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Two roads symbolise choices that come across life time. We must be able to choose the right path to reach our destination

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Part of the effectiveness of this poem is that it leaves so much to the imagination. No biographical information is provided in the poem itself, and so it is not surprising that the poem has often been interpreted as a poem about making choices in life. The imagery of the poem is archetypal: almost everyone is familiar with what it is like to walk through woods; almost everyone is familiar with what it is like to confront two diverging paths; almost everyone is certainly familiar with what it is like to confront two options in life, one leading in one direction and the other leading in another. Frost was a talented poet; he could easily have suggested a very clear, very precise, very unambiguous meaning to the work if he had wanted to. (Even a biographical footnote would have done the trick.) Instead, he wrote a poem that seems deliberately thought-provoking and open to interpretation. Perhaps this is one reason that the poem is so widely read, remembered, and valued