![]() But, since he can't really predict the future, he can only see part of the path. If our speaker is, as we suspect, at a fork in the road of his life, and not at an actual road, he could be trying to peer into his future as far as he can. This is where we start to think about the metaphorical meanings of this poem.But he can only see up to the first bend, where the undergrowth, the small plants and greenery of the woods, blocks his view. He's staring down one road, trying to see where it goes. ![]() he shows that our lives are path a and we are walking to an unknown destination. The speaker really wants to go down both paths – he's thinking hard about his choice. Frost uses the road as a metaphor for life.Because he's standing, we know that he's on foot, and not in a carriage or a car. Because of the impossibility of traveling both roads, the speaker stands there trying to choose which path he's going to take.The speaker is "sorry" he can't travel both roads, suggesting regret.The speaker wants to go down both roads at once, but since it's impossible to walk down two roads at once, he has to choose one road."Diverged" is just another word for split.The woods are yellow, which means that it's probably fall and the leaves are turning colors. With literature, human can depict and explore their imaginations, emotional, experiences, and ideas through fiction or non fiction works.This poem was first published in 1916, when cars were only just beginning to become prominent, so these roads in the wood are probably more like paths, not roads like we'd think of them today. Our speaker is describing a fork in the road. ![]()
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