Question

what does the poet mean by the phycase both that morning equally lay?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Both the morning equally lay" refers to both paths. They are (almost) equal in the eyes of the speaker. Nothing much differentiates them aside from that one is less traveled than the other, simply meaning that less people have walked upon it.

Answer 2

Answers =These lines mean that, of the two roads the narrator is considering, neither one is more or less traveled than the other. ... In other words, when he says, at the end of the poem, that he will later tell people that "[He] took the [road] less traveled [...]," he will be lying